Indexing ~/Mailboxes under 3.0?

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2 total messages Started by Mic Kaczmarczik Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:12

#1519

Author: Mic Kaczmarczik
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:12

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We are having trouble indexing a user's ~/Mailboxes directory under
3.0.  The objective is to be able to use the Librarian to find all the
mail messages that refer to a particular topic.  However, the obvious
procedure of dragging ~/Mailboxes into the Librarian and creating an
index doesn't seem to work -- all queries on the index fail. 

Is there some particular reason NeXT mail files can't be indexed?  Or
is there some conceptual leap I'm not making?  Any ideas or pointers
into TFM would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,

Re: Indexing ~/Mailboxes under 3.0?

#1559

Author: Hal.Varian
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:32

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In article <85174@ut-emx.uucp> mic@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
> We are having trouble indexing a user's ~/Mailboxes directory under
> 3.0.  The objective is to be able to use the Librarian to find all the
> mail messages that refer to a particular topic.  However, the obvious
> procedure of dragging ~/Mailboxes into the Librarian and creating an
> index doesn't seem to work -- all queries on the index fail. 
> 
> Is there some particular reason NeXT mail files can't be indexed?  Or
> is there some conceptual leap I'm not making?  Any ideas or pointers
> into TFM would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Librarian doesn't understand the structure of mbox's.  However, WAIS  
understands it just fine.  Download v1.9 of NeXTWAIS from the archives and use  
it for indexing mboxes, news, etc.  It works very well.  (The latest release of  
NeXTWAIS is/was broken wrt reading mboxes; I don't know if it has been fixed  
yet.)

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Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

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