[Xapian-discuss] using xapian for indexing mails

[Thomas Viehmann]

djcb wrote:
> 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'd also recommend looking at the GMANE indexer (it is targeted at
mboxes though). The Debian list archives uses a derivative of that
(together with the omega search engine). The Debian code should also be
available somewhere

Kind regards

T.

1. http://people.debian.org/~tviehmann/list-search/
   but if that's at all interesting, I'll put up the current stuff, too.
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