Post by thread:[OT] Text Search Software

Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on the contents. I use a program called Text Search that is a freeware program. Search for it using AltaVista or another search engine. I point it at the folder where my mailbox files are stored, give it a section of text to search for, and it finds it. There may be programs specifically designed for searching e-mail, but I find this program does a good job, and is general-purpose, so I can use it for searching through my assembler files as well! Fr. Tom McGahee

At 10:04 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for >searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on >the contents. I just use Ctrl-F inside Eudora. Works great. Andy

Andy Kunz wrote: > > At 10:04 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for > >searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on > >the contents. > > I just use Ctrl-F inside Eudora. Works great. > And Ctrl-Shift-F does the same thing in Netscape's email client (although only one folder at a time). --Matt

>At 10:04 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for >>searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on >>the contents. > >I just use Ctrl-F inside Eudora. Works great. > Mac users could get "Retrieve It!" Very flexible, can search a whole ZIP disk of archived messages very quickly and let you look at text without opening the document. Reg Neale

Netscape can search all the folders in sequence if you select the base root folder, as for example, CTRL+SHIFT+F and select "Local Mail", it searches all mail files and folders. Matt Bonner wrote: {Quote hidden}> > Andy Kunz wrote: > > > > At 10:04 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote: > > >Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for > > >searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on > > >the contents. > > > > I just use Ctrl-F inside Eudora. Works great. > > > And Ctrl-Shift-F does the same thing in Netscape's email client > (although only one folder at a time). > > --Matt

Eudora does this for me as a built in function. At 10:04 AM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for >searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on >the contents. > >I use a program called Text Search that is a freeware program. >Search for it using AltaVista or another search engine. > >I point it at the folder where my mailbox files are stored, give >it a section of text to search for, and it finds it. There may >be programs specifically designed for searching e-mail, but >I find this program does a good job, and is general-purpose, >so I can use it for searching through my assembler files as well! > >Fr. Tom McGahee > > Larry G. Nelson Sr. spam_OUTL.NelsonTakeThisOuTieee.org http://www.ultranet.com/~nr

Hi ! Thomas McGahee wrote: > > Someone on the list mentioned that they wish they had a method for > searching through their e-mail folders and locating messages based on > the contents. You can try Altavista Discovery at : http://discovery.altavista.com/ Its from Alta Vista and is free. St.