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maildir indexing?

jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Has anyone indexed maildir formatted email archives/folders before? I'm thinking this might be crazy but useful to ingest my archived mail, which is all on local disk on the system running Splunk.

Thoughts? Ideas?

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Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic
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jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Turns out that Splunk will read Maildir trees just fine. With some transform magic you can get all the fields to work, as well.

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Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic

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jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Turns out that Splunk will read Maildir trees just fine. With some transform magic you can get all the fields to work, as well.

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Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic
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eashwar
Communicator

hi jtrucks

is this what you are looking for

http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/01/07/splunk-sysadmin-email/

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jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I don't know what the tacotacotaco stuff is for, but perhaps I could point Splunk just at the maildir and see what happens...

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Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic
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jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

So, this is similar, but not quite it as I am thinking of full mail parsing for random email:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/61093/how-can-i-convert-mailbox-or-maildir-to-splunk

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Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic
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