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HOWTO: Offline Newsgroup Message Searching (was Re: Is the archive truncate? Archive feature request [message #53128] Thu, 23 September 2004 21:20 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

New article on this topic published today. You can use Mozilla
Thunderbird or Outlook to search messages. You just have to download
them for offline searching, first.

Details on how to do so using Moz and Outlook are available here:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/scripts/docs.php#refer ences

Takes a while, but it's worth it if you're looking for something
specific. Something I didn't mention specifically in the articles is
that Moz stores its mail as text, whereas Outlook stores is in a
partly-binary format which introduces a lot of non-readable chars into
it (and bloats the file a little). On the other hand, their built-in
message searching is better than simply CTRL-F'ing through a very large
file in a browser or text editor, so choose the method that makes more
sense for your needs.

Cheers,

Nick Boldt


Ed Merks wrote:
> Phillip,
>
> I think the web interface only shows the most recent 1000, but you
> should be able to download them all. It's frustrating that it's so hard
> (impossible as far as I know) to search message contents. I'll ask Nick
> if he knows more about all this....
>
>
> Philipp W. Kutter wrote:
>
>> I was just searching old postings of mine, where Ed Merks proposed to
>> make
>> a bug report. I have not found time to do this before.
>>
>> It seems to me, that the archive has been truncated, my old posts are not
>> online anymore. Is this true?
>>
>> I would need urgently a search feature on the complete Ecore mailgroup
>> archive.
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> In addition, if I post to the webinterface, there is no copy sent to my
>> email address. More imporantly, answers to my post are not sent to the
>> email I am giving. Are there plans to fix this?
>>
>> Best Regards, Philipp
>>
>>
>>
>>
Re: HOWTO: Offline Newsgroup Message Searching (was Re: Is the archive truncate? Archive feature req [message #53708 is a reply to message #53128] Tue, 28 September 2004 18:34 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

Updated yesterday with details for how to actually FIND the extracted
newsgroup post files using Thunderbird and Mozilla. Thanks to Ed for
pointing out the non-intuitive location of Mozilla's newsfile caching. ;-)

Nick

Nick Boldt wrote:

> New article on this topic published today. You can use Mozilla
> Thunderbird or Outlook to search messages. You just have to download
> them for offline searching, first.
>
> Details on how to do so using Moz and Outlook are available here:
>
> http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/scripts/docs.php#refer ences
>
> Takes a while, but it's worth it if you're looking for something
> specific. Something I didn't mention specifically in the articles is
> that Moz stores its mail as text, whereas Outlook stores is in a
> partly-binary format which introduces a lot of non-readable chars into
> it (and bloats the file a little). On the other hand, their built-in
> message searching is better than simply CTRL-F'ing through a very large
> file in a browser or text editor, so choose the method that makes more
> sense for your needs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick Boldt
>
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
>
>> Phillip,
>>
>> I think the web interface only shows the most recent 1000, but you
>> should be able to download them all. It's frustrating that it's so
>> hard (impossible as far as I know) to search message contents. I'll
>> ask Nick if he knows more about all this....
>>
>>
>> Philipp W. Kutter wrote:
>>
>>> I was just searching old postings of mine, where Ed Merks proposed to
>>> make
>>> a bug report. I have not found time to do this before.
>>>
>>> It seems to me, that the archive has been truncated, my old posts are
>>> not
>>> online anymore. Is this true?
>>>
>>> I would need urgently a search feature on the complete Ecore mailgroup
>>> archive.
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
>>> In addition, if I post to the webinterface, there is no copy sent to my
>>> email address. More imporantly, answers to my post are not sent to the
>>> email I am giving. Are there plans to fix this?
>>>
>>> Best Regards, Philipp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
Re: HOWTO: Offline Newsgroup Message Searching (was Re: Is the archive truncate? Archive feature req [message #591933 is a reply to message #53128] Tue, 28 September 2004 18:34 Go to previous message
Nick Boldt is currently offline Nick BoldtFriend
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Updated yesterday with details for how to actually FIND the extracted
newsgroup post files using Thunderbird and Mozilla. Thanks to Ed for
pointing out the non-intuitive location of Mozilla's newsfile caching. ;-)

Nick

Nick Boldt wrote:

> New article on this topic published today. You can use Mozilla
> Thunderbird or Outlook to search messages. You just have to download
> them for offline searching, first.
>
> Details on how to do so using Moz and Outlook are available here:
>
> http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/scripts/docs.php#refer ences
>
> Takes a while, but it's worth it if you're looking for something
> specific. Something I didn't mention specifically in the articles is
> that Moz stores its mail as text, whereas Outlook stores is in a
> partly-binary format which introduces a lot of non-readable chars into
> it (and bloats the file a little). On the other hand, their built-in
> message searching is better than simply CTRL-F'ing through a very large
> file in a browser or text editor, so choose the method that makes more
> sense for your needs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick Boldt
>
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
>
>> Phillip,
>>
>> I think the web interface only shows the most recent 1000, but you
>> should be able to download them all. It's frustrating that it's so
>> hard (impossible as far as I know) to search message contents. I'll
>> ask Nick if he knows more about all this....
>>
>>
>> Philipp W. Kutter wrote:
>>
>>> I was just searching old postings of mine, where Ed Merks proposed to
>>> make
>>> a bug report. I have not found time to do this before.
>>>
>>> It seems to me, that the archive has been truncated, my old posts are
>>> not
>>> online anymore. Is this true?
>>>
>>> I would need urgently a search feature on the complete Ecore mailgroup
>>> archive.
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
>>> In addition, if I post to the webinterface, there is no copy sent to my
>>> email address. More imporantly, answers to my post are not sent to the
>>> email I am giving. Are there plans to fix this?
>>>
>>> Best Regards, Philipp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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