* Re: nnir question
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@ 2002-11-07 5:52 ` mr.sparkle
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From: mr.sparkle @ 2002-11-07 5:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>> I use nnir (with swish-e) to search my archived mail and it's great!
>>>> Is there a way to use it to search archived newsgroup threads? Since
>>>> gnus treats news and mail more or less the same, I'm guessing this
>>>> shouldn't be too difficult.
>>
>> >That depends on how you archive them, If you use nnml it's only a
>> >matter of indexing them.
>>
>> I use nndoc-would it be possible to index them and somehow append the
>> news index to the mail index? Or should I start using nnml for the
>> news archives?
>nnir only handles nnml or other backends with one message per file. I
>don't know about swish-e, but with the search engine I use (Namazu) you
>simply add any new directories you wish to index to the indexing
>command and they're merged with the original index.
I'll give Namazu a try-I'm always on the lookout for new searching and
indexing tools
>> I have quite a few archived threads in nndoc-would it be very painful
>> to convert them to nnml?
>Not that hard. Mark all messages in the summary and move them to a new
>group. Gnus will create a new group if it doesn't exist.
Thanks for the tip-I'll try that
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