Re: [courier-users] Search archived mails or integrate into own Maildir

[Jon N. <jne...@ja...>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2004, at 5:51 pm, David Newall wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 00:38, Christophe Zwecker wrote:
> >> I use the archive function, if I want to search for a mail or look at
> >> ,
> >> is there a way your supposed to do that, or is find and grep my friend
> >> here ?
> >
> > I use find and grep, but the size of my archive, being now well over
> > 1GB, is getting too large for such brute force tools.  There are
> > various
> > tools; htdig seems to spring to mind.
>
> htdig sprung to my mind when Google announced the searching features of
> their new Gmail. It seems to me that htdig could be used to build my
> own gmail system on my home courier-imap server. Has anyone tried
> this..? How are the results..?
>
> Stroller.

I would give swish++ a look -- it's what I use at home and I'm quite
happy with it.

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Jon Nelson <jne...@ja...>
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