On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Hasan Diwan wrote: > I'd like to provide myself with a searchable index of email. I'm > familiar with the Javamail library, so will use this to fetch the > mail. Anyone out there done any indexing of email? On Sourceforge, > there's zoe[1], which hasn't had a release since 2004, and a couple of > other projects. I'm also seeing something about sphinx, which reads > like another indexing platform(?). Any advice regarding this is > appreciated.
Depends on what your trying to index, I suppose. Maildir or mbox? For some time now, off and on, I have been working to index an ezmlm mailing list archive. In the end, I went with Swish-E and have made quite a bit of progress. I am short of my complete goal though. The issue is that the search results do not return results that contain the subject, and there is currently no excerpt or phrase highlighting. My problem is the flat text email files I am working with have no xml or anything to help the indexer create fields from. I've not yet figured out how to convert the emails to xml. Other than though, it's functional, and very fast. That being said, I'm sure Sphinx or Lucene could do the same thing, and I would love to hear from anyone out there who is using Lucene to index a list of emails that are mbox format. You can see my Swish-E implementation, in all it's unfinished glory, at http://type2.com/search It covers roughly 200,000 emails over the past 15 years. Peace, Troy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
