Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
Hello, I find that search engines have been widely accepted as the best mechanism of finding information. I don't know how one is expected to search MSDN without Google. In fact, I don't know anyone who uses anything but Google. John ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
Carina Burns wrote: >I too use outlook too to search through messages...It's slow going but >still seems faster than BMC support... <_< > >Any suggestions would be appreciated. Use Lookout recently bought by Microsoft. The best desktop e-mail search engine bar none - if only they made it not for Outlook but for Thunderbird ... ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
I too use outlook too to search through messages...It's slow going but still seems faster than BMC support... <_< Any suggestions would be appreciated. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
Already got something... I started out using an application called "ForKeeps" that did quite a bit. If you want to try it out, you can find it at www.fkeeps.com. Ragnar's application works just fine, and it has a number of search features which work pretty well. Sometime later, I got a little frustrated, however, and started to develop my own because I wanted something that would sit on top of MySQL, or Access rather than SQL Server, and would do searching the way that I wanted it to. I wrote an initial version of the code in VB6, and have still been playing with it every now and again. The initial version is pretty cheesy, and needs work to make it usable, but if you willing to help, and are willing to keep it in VB6 for now (there are more VB6 programmers than there are VB.Net), I would certainly be willing to consider dumping the source code into something like a SourceForge project. I know that this topic comes up every now and again... Maybe this is a good way to start a tool for the list - developed by the list? Joe DeSouza wrote: ** I had a thought of doing something similar as well.. The option I was thinking about is installing the component required so as to be able to export data from Outlook in a csv format so that it could be translated to a data tables using means such as DTS... However I am not too certain whether or not installing that export feature on outlook allows for export of mails or contacts only... So what I had done instead is started using this yahoo account that I was receiving my ARS List mails on as well and I have created folders such as information, solutions, tricks etc where I archive mails that I think are valuable.. Cheers Joe D'Souza - Original Message From: "Heider, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:13:02 AM Subject: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index List, I search my local ARS List emails regularly. However, it's somewhat slow searching the email body within Outlook. For Jan 2005 to Jan 2007 the .pst file is 700MB. I am getting close to simply writing something that extracts the Outlook emails and imports them into a database (either Remedy, SQL Server, or Access) just so I can more efficiently search the ARS List postings. When the data is in a regular database I can index everything. Before I head down this road has anyone else done this? Stephen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
Hi Stephen, It still strikes me that you can search the entire interweb in under 2 seconds, but to search that one email from a couple of months back in Outlook can take a couple of minutes Of course, because I use gmail, I can already use Google's search capabilities on my own email messages. I use that regularly. I can reccomend a similar solution for your e-mails as well. You use outlook, there are a lot of options available. You could use Google Desktop, but also Microsoft Desktop Search or Mail Archive Pro are options. Some of these will also have the benefit that you can search other docs (code snippets etc) on your hard drive as well. Saves me tons of time! Kind regards, Michiel On 1/11/07, Joe DeSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** I had a thought of doing something similar as well.. The option I was thinking about is installing the component required so as to be able to export data from Outlook in a csv format so that it could be translated to a data tables using means such as DTS... However I am not too certain whether or not installing that export feature on outlook allows for export of mails or contacts only... So what I had done instead is started using this yahoo account that I was receiving my ARS List mails on as well and I have created folders such as information, solutions, tricks etc where I archive mails that I think are valuable.. Cheers Joe D'Souza - Original Message From: "Heider, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:13:02 AM Subject: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index List, I search my local ARS List emails regularly. However, it's somewhat slow searching the email body within Outlook. For Jan 2005 to Jan 2007 the .pst file is 700MB. I am getting close to simply writing something that extracts the Outlook emails and imports them into a database (either Remedy, SQL Server, or Access) just so I can more efficiently search the ARS List postings. When the data is in a regular database I can index everything. Before I head down this road has anyone else done this? Stephen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
Re: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index
I had a thought of doing something similar as well.. The option I was thinking about is installing the component required so as to be able to export data from Outlook in a csv format so that it could be translated to a data tables using means such as DTS... However I am not too certain whether or not installing that export feature on outlook allows for export of mails or contacts only... So what I had done instead is started using this yahoo account that I was receiving my ARS List mails on as well and I have created folders such as information, solutions, tricks etc where I archive mails that I think are valuable.. Cheers Joe D'Souza - Original Message From: "Heider, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:13:02 AM Subject: OT: ARS List Email is a Goldmine - How to Index List, I search my local ARS List emails regularly. However, it's somewhat slow searching the email body within Outlook. For Jan 2005 to Jan 2007 the .pst file is 700MB. I am getting close to simply writing something that extracts the Outlook emails and imports them into a database (either Remedy, SQL Server, or Access) just so I can more efficiently search the ARS List postings. When the data is in a regular database I can index everything. Before I head down this road has anyone else done this? Stephen __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
