Installation is dead easy (v1.41 anyway). Just start Windows installer, next, next, done.But it seemed like a headache to get the Windows version running ... Has anyone actually got this running on Windows or elsewhere?
When you start the program for the first time it will ask you what to index e.g. entire drive or select a folder - I'm only interested in searching my thunderbird email[1] archive. Indexing sure isn't fast, but the search results are instant. There is a Windows FAQ - haven't need it yet - https://www.recoll.org/pages/recoll-windows-faq.html
[1] re database email search
I tried docfecther but didn't do it for me. Archivarius is dead (last update 2005, website seems to be offline at the moment) and simply doesn't index everything and no longer opens individual messages so you still have to go find it again manually even if you did find something. Nice when you don't have too much email or many documents, but not for modern times.
An alternative could be to convert an email archive (mbox format like TB uses) to HTML pages using a perl program: Mhonarc -- https://mhonarc.org/ - no doubt docfetcher and other database/indexed search applications can handle html without too much problems - Mhonarc works well but has many options and if you want to modify the templates it can take some time to delve into the documentation and set it up to your liking.
MHonArc is a Perl mail-to-HTML converter. MHonArc provides HTML mail archiving with index, mail thread linking, etc; plus other capabilities including support for MIME and powerful user customization features.
Statistics: Posted by lintalist — Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:57 am