From: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: searching local mail stores
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:30:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9iwo8e6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
I would like to index and search across my local mail stores, and
eventually all my other files. gnus is my primary mail and news
reader. I have used ...
gmail -- nnimap -- gnus
... for some years. I now plan to move all my mail to my local server so
that I can index and search it more quickly. I have recently set up ...
gmail -- mbsync -- dovecot+lucene -- nnimap -- gnus
gmail -- mbsync -- Maildir -- mu4e
I am using mu4e (part of mu) as a stalking horse + benchmark because it
is new and actively developed. mu uses the xapian search engine which
could be a good search solution for my other files since it handles many
document types. mu4e's primary downside (for me) is that it is not
integrated with gnus.
I want to compare the performance of mu4e with some of the gnus search
schemes. Looking at gnus INFO ...
8 Searching
8.1 nnir Searching with various engines.
8.1.3 Setting up nnir
8.1.3.2 The imap Engine
8.1.3.3 The gmane Engine
8.1.3.4 The swish++ Engine
8.1.3.5 The swish-e Engine
8.1.3.6 The namazu Engine
8.1.3.7 The notmuch Engine
8.2 nnmairix
... it was not obvious which I should try. So I searched the gmane
gnus.user and gnus.general news groups. I found these hit counts and
dates:
| search | gnus.user | gnus.user | gnus.general | gnus.general | total |
| term | hits | dates | hits | dates | |
|---------+-----------+-----------+--------------+--------------+-------|
| swish++ | 11 | 02-06 | 73 | 01-13 | 84 |
| swishe | 33 | 02-10 | 40 | 97-14 | 73 |
| namazu | 56 | 02-15 | 196 | 01-15 | 252 |
| notmuch | 33 | 09-15 | 101 | 10-15 | 134 |
| mairix | 100 | 04-12 | 140 | 06-15 | 240 |
| mu4e | 4 | 12-15 | 6 | 12-15 | 10 |
|---------+-----------+-----------+--------------+--------------+-------|
I plan to set aside notmuch because it seems pretty similar to mu4e.
It looks like mairix and namazu are in the lead and the swishes are
pretty far behind. Or maybe the swishes work flawlessly:)
So maybe I should get namazu and/or mairix working?
Would anyone care to comment on which of these I should try and why?
- george
next reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-02 5:30 myglc2 [this message]
2016-01-02 11:37 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-02 16:13 ` myglc2
2016-01-02 17:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-02 21:54 ` myglc2
2016-01-02 22:06 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-03 18:48 ` myglc2
2016-01-03 5:14 ` Benjamin Slade
2016-01-03 9:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-04 21:12 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-01-05 1:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-05 8:38 ` Rainer M Krug
2016-01-05 8:45 ` Erik Colson
2016-01-05 10:14 ` Rainer M Krug
2016-01-05 9:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-05 9:26 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-01-05 8:54 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-01-05 9:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-05 9:29 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-01-03 13:36 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-09-27 17:29 myglc2
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