[TriLUG] searchable mail archive

[Warren Myers]

If they're still around, I'd suggest a Google Appliance on the network. We
had one when I worked at Opsware a few years ago for things just like that
:)


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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