On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:33:20PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: >> I am interested in a Linux FOSS solution, by the way. >> >> I need a way to search through old email messages quickly and efficiently. >> I would use this for listserv archives and, I hope, for personal email. > > Have you tried http://swish-e.org/ or http://www.namazu.org/ ? Thanks for the tips. I haven't tried swish in about 10 years, but I did use it way back then. It looks like it has come a long way. I've never tried namazu. They look like good engines but I wonder if they allow for email-specific kinds of queries. For example, if I want to find every message where "jones" (case insensitive) is found in the cc field and "linux" is found in the message body, will they allow for that? I think they treat messages as files and could only go so far as to find messages that contain both terms jones and linux without regard to the part of the message the terms are in. This would be much like WebGlimpse (or a little better than that), which I have been using for a few years. I'm looking for something that has special email-specific features and is not a general file-searching engine. The namazu HTML filters are a step in the right direction and maybe the MHonArc and pipermail filters are even better. Namazu might be really nice for searching though all sorts of files on your Linux box, kinda like Google Desktop in Windows. It doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for, but that might not exist. Thanks again! Mike