From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 23:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4B137B409 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brian (dns.sonicboom.org [24.13.23.147]) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8P6Vgl39370; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <029b01c1458b$b937d820$3324200a@sonicboom.org> From: "Brian" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , References: <20010925075900.C3954@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Looking for Mr good mail archiver port...[OT ?] Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:31:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have heard of people indexing data with glimpse I believe, to improve future searchability. Bri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:59 PM Subject: Looking for Mr good mail archiver port...[OT ?] > Hello, > Yesterday I cleaned up a lot of my mail directories and > archived a lot of the messages for future use. What I want > to do is to create my own personal database of information from > the various mailing lists I am on. I also tend to eliminate > the messages that say "thanks, I will try that" etc.. (not because > there is anything wrong with that, I am just trying to keep > concrete information). > Now I am looking for a way of handling this ever growing > body of information. Rather than having to load mailboxes > and search etc. > For example say I am looking for a piece of information on > "FreeBSD and Massively Parallel Processors for use on the > Moon" I want to do fuzzy searches on the mail files and come up > with an indexed display of relevant messages. Bearing in mind > that some of my saved archives come from different mailing lists. > > My question is, is there a tool out there that will help with this? > I could write one myself of course..I was thinking of mysql or > some such. > > I am not being sycophantic when I say I am asking this list for > information because technically wise it is consistently more > responsive than some of the other lists I am on ! > > I use postfix/procmail/mutt as my mail setup and slrn for news. > (if that is of any relevance). > My mailbox format is mbox. > > Thanks in advance. > > p.s. I have it on my list to have a look at grepmail. > > -- > Regards > Cliff > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message