Indexing email messages?

[Ashley Collins <ac...@hotmail.com>]

I'm using Lucene to index MIME messages and have a couple of questions.

1) What is the best way to handle keyword fields which are repeated? Like 
"recipient" for example.

At the moment I have a for loop doing

        document.add(Field.Keyword("recipient", address));

But this seems to limit query results to messages that were sent to only the 
person I'm searching for...


Or, should I use Field.Text instead and write a custom analyzer which 
doesn't split email addresses. Then, store one field "recipients" which is a 
whitespace separated list of all the recipients?


2) I also store the sender in a keyword field, but searching isn't 
consistent. I can find some addresses, but not others. Where should I start 
looking for information to help with debugging?


3) Also, how do I make sure query terms that are for untokenized keyword 
fields don't get tokenized by QueryParse.parse()? I tried using the 
WhiteSpaceAnalyzer, but searching was still inconsistent.


Thanks in advance!
Ashley Collins





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Re: Indexing email messages?

[petite_abeille <pe...@mac.com>]

On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 11:12 Europe/Zurich, Ashley Collins wrote:

> I'm using Lucene to index MIME messages and have a couple of questions.

You should take a look at ZOE as it does all that and more. It's open 
source and uses Lucene to index every single bits of email.

http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/

Cheers,

PA.



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