[Xapian-discuss] using xapian for indexing mails

[djcb]

Dear Xapian,

I am writing a little tool for indexing/searching email messages in
maildirs.

For indexing the message bodies, Xapian looks like an interesting
option, but I have some newbie questions. What I would *like* to do is
being able to add the email bodies to the Xapian database, and then be
able to search for some words.

I am looking at the Quickstart (http://xapian.org/docs/quickstart.html).
and it seems I have to create a Xapian::Document instance, then (1) add
document data with set_data and (2) add some search terms with
add posting.

I could use the message path as the document data, but what about the
search terms? Should I split my body text in words, and add every single
one of them as a search term? That does not sound very attractive...  I
seems that 'recoll' (which uses Xapian) is doing that though.

Or is there some easier way to simply provide blobs of text, and being
able to search for them later? I have the feeling I am misunderstanding
something....

Hope someone can give me some hints.

Thanks in advance!
Dirk.

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