From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86539 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: searching local mail stores Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:15:49 +0800 Message-ID: <87d1tgfku2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87h9iwo8e6.fsf@gmail.com> <87twmwxler.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87si2gx8lq.fsf@gmail.com> <8737ufyi9y.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87d1tjkzw3.fsf@jnanam.net> <87lh87c9va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r3hwn6mf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451985409 30654 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 09:16:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:16:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34766@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 05 10:16:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNjG-0006FE-8O for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:16:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNiv-0000VH-NF; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:16:13 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNis-0000Ur-55 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:16:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNir-00015q-IR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:16:10 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNiq-0007XY-3M for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:16:08 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNin-0005sy-8x for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:16:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.252.241.193 ([114.252.241.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:16:05 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.252.241.193 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:16:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.252.241.193 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jFKcoHWXbMjr41S+jxfz9Li4SZw= X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86539 Archived-At: Alan Schmitt writes: > On 2016-01-05 09:43, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I think the problem is that you can't actually use notmuch with the >> nnimap backend. > > Ah, I see. I could switch to the nnmaildir backend, but I prefer to let > dovecot handle all the mail manipulation. > >> But I think the idea is: if you're using an IMAP server, you're supposed >> to be letting the server do the searching, and give you the results. >> Searching the filesystem directly is kind of "going behind the server's >> back". I don't actually know if that would cause any real problems, but >> the code is definitely set up with that assumption in mind. >> >> Maybe try the FTS dovecot plugin? > > I should really do that (it's in my long todo list). I first need to > convert my installation to use a single dovecot instance, though. (A > couple hours later …) OK, done. I'll look into FTS (probably Lucene) > a little bit later. > > Thanks for the suggestion, Well I'm not saying you've got to do it this way! I'm not trying to advocate one method over the other, as I really don't have a comprehensive understanding of how all this works. I don't want to lead anyone astray...