Newsgroup search

[Gary Lopez]

Russ,
	I wanted to search the body of the e-mails. You answered what I needed 
to know. Thanks.

Gary D Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Catapult Communications
160 S Whisman Rd
Mountain View, CA 94041
Ph  (650) 314-1029
Fax (650) 960-1029


Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gary Lopez <gary at catapult.com> writes:
> 
>> I am using Thunderbird mail client and I am trying to search old
>> messages in my newsgroup. The search feature only gives me the options
>> of either Subject or From. I am trying to figure out if there is a
>> setting in the configuration I need to change.
> 
> You probably need to change clients, since the server is already providing
> more information than that.  The search is probably based on overview,
> which by default provides the following headers:
> 
>     Subject:
>     From:
>     Date:
>     Message-ID:
>     References:
>     Lines:
>     Xref:
> 
> plus the article byte count.  You can add more headers to the overview
> database (at the cost of having the news server send more data to most
> clients whenever they read groups) by changing overview.fmt, but it sounds
> like your client isn't even supporting all of the headers that are already
> there.
> 
> If, however, you're looking for full text search, I'm afraid that the NNTP
> protocol has no provision for that.  You'd need a client willing to
> download each message in the group and search through it.
>