[ale] Indexing and searching very, very large Maildir

[Brian Pitts]

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:06 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> We have a very large directory in Maildir format that we need to
> index, search and then view messages within. Large as in 672 Gigs and
> growing. We used to use mairix, but it started choking at around the
> 200G mark.

Have you tried hacking something together with lucene or solr?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene

-Brian