[TriLUG] searchable mail archive

[Robert Dale]

mailman has some ideas..
http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+make+the+archives+searchable

There's also http://nutch.apache.org/

Or if you really want to torture people, you could commit to a git
repository and make everyone use git grep. Nah, I guess someone will
figure out that they could just slap a web front end on that too..


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> At $WORK, we have a handful of mailman lists that we rely on ENTIRELY TOO
> MUCH.
>
> Where some would:
> - use a wiki to work together
> - open a bug report to track a problem
> - post their in/out status to a board
> - hold a conversation on a forum
> - mention in passing that they are hungry
> - chuckle quietly to himself
>
> ...in each case, we just blast a message out to the entire mailing list.
>
> Most of our users are running Outlook, and most users do what they are told
> to do -- they keep their backlog of mail on the Exchange server.  So even a
> simple search is very slow.  (Some more enlightened users run "better" mail
> clients and keep their $MAILDIRs close at hand... those people tend not to
> have these search problems... but that's a much larger cultural fight).
>
> So now we're looking for a tool to allow us to quickly search our mailing
> list history.
>
> Our group does not have direct access to the mail server, but we're thinking
> it might make sense to have a dummy user that subscribes to the mailing
> lists, stores the mail archives locally, and runs a web server and a
> web-based search tool that can do the searches and return results.
>
> Do any of you guys have suggestions for such a mail archive searcher server?
>
> Or -- without pointing out that "we're doing it wrong" -- is there a tweak
> we can make to our process that might make this task a little easier?
>
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Robert Dale