Hmm, I sort of thought that Exmerge might do this for you, but cannot remember. I am usually doing a full dump of a mailbox and not specific keywords.
I do know that a solution like Symantec's Enterprise Vault would do this for you when configured correctly. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Exchange 2003 Enterprise SP2 (on Server 2000 Std SP4) > > Is there a way to search the entire message store -- all mailboxes > at once -- and extract messages matching a given keyword, and/or send > to/from a given domain? > > Management just came to me with this request due to some legal > snafu. Before now, archiving/compliance solutions were too expensive > and we don't need them, so we've got nothing in place. > > This will probabbly be a rare thing[1], so a dumb linear search > through the entire store doing a simple pattern match is acceptable. > I know it will take at least two forevers to crawl through our 60 GB > store, but that's okay. > > ExMerge was my first throught, but AFAIK, it will only search by > date or subject keyword, not body keyboard or domain, and there's no > date range on this request, so I don't think ExMerge will help me. > > We're not currently using Exchange Full-Text Indexing. If that will > do it, I will enable it[2], but my understanding is that FTI doesn't > provide a method for multi-mailbox searches anyway. Then again, I > know little about it, so if I'm wrong, please beat me over the head > with a referal to a manual or article or whatever. > > advTHANKSance!! > > === Footnotes === > > [1] First time in eight years it's been needed. So management may > have a point on the ROI of an add-on product. If we start needing it > all the time then the ROI changes and I'll push for the add-on > product. > > [2] I'm sure it will also take two forevers to build the index, and > we'll prolly end up shutting it off afterwards, so I think a dumb > linear search might actually be better for this request. But if it'll > get me there, I'll take it. > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
