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In article <11120@shemp.UCLA.EDU> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
>The idea I had was to take all of one's incoming mail and put it into a
>information retrieval system.  Messages could then be searched for by
>any of a number of criteria (dates, addresses, subject, user-assigned
>keywords, etc.).  The kinds of searches available would be limited only
>by the resources available to do the indexing and the searching.

Tops-20 Mm allows message selection by all of the above mentioned
things plus some others.  (message body contents, unseen, flagged,
etc.) It also supports the multiple folder model.  It does not use a
general purpouse database.

There are at least two copies of Mm for unix, the one I have used has
major problems, I consider it "almost usable".  I also have a Mm
subset for primos.

>Is anyone out there on the net aware of a mail system that does the
>kinds of things I am suggesting here?  If in fact it hasn't been done,
>is there some major "show-stopper" problem that has kept it from being
>done?

No major show stopper that I know of.  Implamentation problems such as
limited mailbox size do exist.  (Startup is also slower on large
mailboxes.)  Most of the problems with keywords have been rediscovered
by mm users, although since the same person assigns and uses the
keywords they are less than a general keyword system.
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