From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 5:43:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839A937B408 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:43:28 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15o2PQ-00061n-00; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:42:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:42:56 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Mike Meyer Cc: Cliff Sarginson , "Gary W. Swearingen" , Brian , questions Subject: Re: Looking for Mr good mail archiver port...[OT ?] In-Reply-To: <15284.49504.73445.529806@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > The WAIS implementations in the ports blow up if you give them to much > data. This may not be a problem if you're going to keep separate > indices for each list. Since WAIS lets you search multiple databases > with a single query, this shouldn't be a serious problem. > > I haven't really looked at zebra-server yet. I have. If you're going to run a Z39.50 server, I'd look at Cheshire iover the ID offering. jan (now using cheshire instead of zebra, btw) > > Cliff Sarginson types: > > Thanks for the replies. > > I experimented with "grepmail" which has a neat front-end > > someone wrote for use with mutt. > > It is very good. > > I plan to see how fast it can handle huge compressed > > mailboxes in the next day or so.. > > Once WAIS started blowing on my personal folder, I found that standard > Unix tools work fairly well. I sort the mail out into directories by > month, one message per file. So doing things like "look for a message > in june or july about SCSI disks" turns into: > > find 2001-0[67] -type f | xargs grep -i "^subject:.*scsi" > > Adding the qualifier "From joe" turns it into: > > find 2001-0[67] -type f | xargs grep -il "^from:.*joe" | > xargs grep -i "^subject:.*scsi" > > Reading the messages instead of looking at the list of names/subjects is: > > find 2001-0[67] -type f | xargs grep -il "^from:.*joe" | > xargs grep -il "^subject:.*scsi" | more > > I'm a CLI kind of guy, so the above doesn't bother me much. Doing a Tk > or web front end for this should be pretty simple. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "Sufficiently large"="infinite" for sufficiently large values of "sufficiently" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message