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- From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: Indexing ~/Mailboxes under 3.0?
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:32:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
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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.)
-
- --
- Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian
- voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics
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