On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:41:32 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> terryc said on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:17:11 +1100
>
> >What the problem is that there is no overall archiving system that
> >makes all this information searchable. What was that FOSS programm
> >that sucked up all your lists and provided a searchable web portal.I
> >had to shut mine down as it needed an easyway to mangle all the
> >collected email addresses.
>
> One search mechanism is doveadm search:
>
> [slitt@mydesk flex]$ doveadm search mailbox dng from terryc
> Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed:
> Permission denied
> c8c8a4141115e2541f350000b22befbd 32577
> c8c8a4141115e2541f350000b22befbd 32580
> c8c8a4141115e2541f350000b22befbd 32584
> c8c8a4141115e2541f350000b22befbd 32585
> [slitt@mydesk flex]$
>
> So it found four emails from terryc in the dng mailbox.
>
> I'm sure there's a way to have it pull up headers and bodies, but I
> haven't found that yet. In practice I do searches using my email
> client search facility on my Dovecot IMAP server.

The old program I was thinking of was htdig or more correctly
ht://Dig As well as my personal computer, I ran it on the web-server
and provided public web access to the LUG and other email lists.

I might have a look at 'recoll' as it seems to do the same job for
personal files.