Indexing of attachments in Windows

[oliverm]

The docs state that Windows doesnt support indexing of attachments.

Whats the reason for this ? What is required that isnt in Windows ?

Olly

[SteveB]

I believe it's the use of filters (i.e. converters) for indexing MS Word and PDF files, but I'm not sure. Let me find out.

[PeteE]

It's really two things:

1) You'll need to write a batch script to start the MWDaemon.exe and MWUpdateDameon.exe processes. You might also want to make these run from a windows service so you don't need to manually start them at each boot

2) The search filters to convert .pdf, .doc, etc rely on shell scripts and some linux-specific programs to do the conversion. It's possible that you could find windows-equivalent functionality and create your own batch scripts to do the conversion. If you take a look at mwsearch.conf file you should get an idea for how the mapping between a file extension and a program to convert that file to plain text works.