Searching the Digikam-users Archive

[bob.bourg at gmail.com]

Gilles,

Thank you for your response.  I tried more testing, and it does seem like the results depend a lot on the search engine used and the search term.  For what it's worth, here are a couple of examples:

Search command - site:mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users searchterm

Search Engine    searchterm      Result with Most Recent Date
Google                metadata         2025-June
DuckDuckGo      metadata         2026-March
Google                BQM                 2023-December
DuckDuckGo      BQM                 2024-November

DuckDuckGo was better in both cases, but it still did not return more recent results for "BQM" that occurred in 2025.  

Thanks also for the reminders on the documentation and the sub-reddit.  What led to my question was a topic that I knew I had read in a Digikam-users post but could not find.  I ended up finding it by searching Bugzilla, which is also a great source of historical info!

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 10:01 AM
To: digikam-users at kde.org
Subject: Re: Searching the Digikam-users Archive

Hi,

> I believe this question has been asked before, but is there a way to search the archives of this digiKam-users mailing list?
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> I have tried using Google search with “site:https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/  searchterm”, but this returns only old results.  Is the site now configured to disallow Google indexing?

Not at all. You can also use another search engine such as duckduckgo or bing for ex.

>  If so, can this be fixed?  Let me know if I need to direct this request to someone else and how I would do this.
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> I will download all of the archive text files if needed, but I was hoping there is a better way.  This forum is a great source of info, but if there is no simple search function, repeat questions (like this one!) would seem more likely to occur.

Did you take a look to :

- The FAQ ?  https://www.digikam.org/documentation/faq/
- The sub-reddit chanel ? https://www.reddit.com/r/digiKam/

Best regards


Gilles Caulier