On 11/29/2007 11:29 PM, Dr Michael Daly wrote:
> Hi
> Can this be adapted to index email i.e. email that stays on the server?
> 

iirc, you are asking about the ability to index mail that you normally access via IMAP or
some web client like squirrelmail.

yes, you could set up a cron to index the mail, and a cgi (or similar) to search it,
either adapting a hypermail/pipermail conversion script or similar. The issue becomes how
you might integrate the search results with your email client. I.e., you can find a
message, but then what?

I posted about this project the other day:
http://search.cpan.org/~karman/SWISH-Prog-0.08/lib/SWISH/Prog/Mail.pm
**(NOTE: I am actively redesigning the API for SWISH::Prog)**

I use that to index my maildir folders on my mail server, then copy the indexes to my
local machine to search. It's not particularly polished -- again, integrating the search
results in a seamless way with a mail client would be ideal. Something like squirrelmail
or the like would be a prime candidate.

A quick google search tells me squirrelmail has some kind of searching features. Perhaps
post to their list?


-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/

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