On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:25:07AM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-02-26-07:34:10 Thomas Roessler:
> > I seem to recall that someone on this list wrote about some clever
> > scripts to automate the use of glimpse and mutt to search huge
> > e-mail archives. Any pointers?
>
> I did that a while back. I can describe 'em in some detail. However,
> I don't have them any more. At one point an OS upgrade left me
> with glimpindex bombing off fatally, leaving crud behind that
> made glimpse bomb, and when I went to check for newer versions I
> discovered that it had gone away; it's now a PC-style shareware
> thingie, registration required and all that. Sad to see useful code
> go down.
I asked something similar a while back, and while I haven't done
anything about setting up glimpse with mutt and it certainly has
become what a devout debian's would call non-free (registration
required, copyrighted and free only to educational and gov't
institutions) software you might want to take a look at
http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ anyway. They do seem willing to
distribute source and binaries. And the page is titled "Glimpse - a
UNIX Search Engine". It also looks like anyone can grab the older
version without any difficulty. Frankly I couldn't tell if they want
money for glimpse of only for webglimpse and since I am an educational
institution they wouldn't charge me.
Oh and if you do figure out how to set it up to index $HOME/Mail in a
way accessible through mutt let me know.
--
Josh Kuperman
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Saratoga Springs Public Library
