If you are looking for a general archive solution, I have also used hypermail. Hypermail takes a mail file in mbox format and generates a set of cross-linked html files, one file for each message. There are many utilities available to convert various mail stores to mbox format, and I believe Netscape, Thunderbird, and maybe even Eudora, all use a variant of the mbox format for each mail folder, so these files may be able to be fed directly to hypermail with no modification. You would have to test that to be certain.
Addressing your concerns: 1) Access controls: Access to the html files can be controlled, user-by-user, with your web server configuration, or the html files can be accessed directly from a file system, in which case access can be controlled through file system permissions. 2) The html archive can certainly be accessed via a web browser. Hypermail, itself, is a Linux/Unix program, but can also be compiled on Windows with cygwin, and on Mac OS X. Also, once the set of html files are created, there are no CGI scripts or other dependencies, so the files should be able to be hosted, anywhere. 3) Because these are just basic html files, it should be possible to graft in any third-party web search and indexing solution. And if these files are just stored on a shared filesystem, then the directory tree is easily text-searchable by any OS native facility for performing text searches. I freely admit this solution is very minimalistic, and also does not provide much in the way of automated maintenance or other features. But it might meet the criteria you laid out, so I thought I would mention it. --Aaron McCaleb On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 09:05, Stefan<[email protected]> wrote: > I like http://gmane.org/ (my goto place, even for those maintaining > their own archives) > > and they seem to have the software available for download: > > http://gmane.org/dist.php > > HTH > -- > ***Stefan > http://twitter.com/netfortius > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Christophe Kalt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm looking for a solution to provide shared searchable email archives. >> >> - By shared, I (also) mean that I need to be able to permission individual >> users >> for access to specific archives. >> - Web front-end would be ideal, otherwise the client needs to run on Windows. >> - An approach with public folders may work, but I've yet to see a good search >> engine on top of that. >> - This has nothing to do with compliance. >> >> Christophe >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
