Re: Any advice for a searchable web archiver ?

Marc Chantreux wrote on 11/19/17 2:52 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> As the sympa community (http://www.sympa.org) recently grown, we are
> thinking about revamping the whole UI and we would like to have
> a new web archiver based on:
> 
> * no default frontend but exposing the API through REST, websockets or
>    whatever.
> * maximizing the interactions between Sympa and CPAN
> * trying to avoid other dynamic langage or jvm dependency
>    (or considering them as temporary solutions)
> * being JMAP friendly (we bet on it to become a very healthy community)
> 
> My first idea was to use notmuch, PEP modules and Dancer on top of
> maildirs then i discover Dezi (inactive since 2015) and the use of
> Lucy (also used by the very active librecat project).

I like to think that Dezi, like Lucy, is stable rather than inactive, but your 
point is taken. :)



> 
> I know Dezi is a general search engine but i hope that taking care of
> a good email support for it than reinvent the wheel.
> 


You could use Dezi::App with something like 
https://metacpan.org/pod/Dezi::Aggregator::MailFS to index email messages. Then 
serve the index(es) with the Dezi server. That's definitely a known use case.

pek


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