Full-text indexed mail repository

摘要

An apparatus for accessing mail messages includes a first memory storing mail messages, and a second memory storing a full-text index of the mail messages. Provided are means for accessing the mail messages using queries composed on client computers connected to the first and second memories by a network. The queries search the full-text index to locate mail messages satisfying the queries. The apparatus also includes means for sending the located mail messages to the client computers over the network. <IMAGE>