[icebraining]

grep can trawl through gigs of files in a few seconds (and that's without indexes), so I don't see why would be an unhappy experience. In any case, there are alternatives; one would be to "recruit" a few other clients of the same organization for a distributed parallel search.

[codefined]

The issue comes from the fact that I don't really want to have to download gigabytes of data over my network.

Especially not if I just want to quickly check my messages from a web browser.

[hamandcheese]

Okay, show me an end to end platform I can grep through.