[Xapian-discuss] Re: Indexing of email

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:29:27PM +0800, Fabrice Colin wrote:
> Alternatively, if you prefer graphical applications, both Recoll and Pinot
> allow indexing and searching mailbox files :
> http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
> http://pinot.berlios.de/
> 
> I am not sure whether Recoll or mbox2omega support attachements. Pinot 
> doesn't.

If you're looking for code rather than a shrink-wrapped solution
the gmane indexer indexes email and understands MIME attachments but
will undoubtably need adapting for your application:

http://search.gmane.org/~xapian/

The MIME parsing uses libgmime.

Cheers,
    Olly