Re: Searchable archives

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Tuesday, Sep 12th 2006 at 08:14 -0700, quoth Erik Pearson:
>
> =>> > 4. Need to be able to search the archives.
> =>> >   
> =>> Using what search engine?
> =>
> =>Using mj2 of course! No, seriously, I see no reason
> =>why mj2 shouldn't be able to search its own archives.
>
> I would love this capability also. Any web interface even if it's just 
> running grep would be wonderful.
>   
Mj2 archives e-mail messages with all of their MIME formatting, so every 
time the archive command is used to view a message, the message must be 
parsed.   Parsing message bodies and making them available to grep would 
scale very poorly.

Would a full text search include only readable message body parts, or 
would it also include the headers?

Is there a way to alleviate the parsing problem without duplicating 
every message in the archive?

Michael