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[Monte Milanuk]

On 6/8/10 11:11 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 11:03 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
>> On 8 June 2010 17:10, Kaushal Shriyan<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> How do i search the archives on
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/ for a particular topic ?
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>> Kaushal
>>> --
>>
>> There seems to be no easy way to do this except downloading the full
>> archive (24MB) which is in mbox format then opening it in your own
>> email reader or program. For example
>>
>> $ mutt -f ubuntu-server.mbox
>>
>> then search by pressing the letter l. (small L)
>
> Or, point your nntp client to news.gmane.org and then subscribe to
> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
> If using SeaMonkey or Thunderbird you can simply enter the search term
> in the search box, or perform an Advanced search to search within the
> body, headers etc. Archives go back to 09/17/2004.
>

Another alternative:  Markmail.org

More specifically,

http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Acom.ubuntu.lists.ubuntu-server