Re: mail group by author?

[Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:46:09 +0200 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> writes:

>> I have great hopes for dbmail (dbmail.org). dbmail has an IMAP-backend
>> for retrieving messages. Storing headers (and body) for mail messages
>> into a database, opens possibilities for flexible and efficient
>> queries and retrieval of email messages.
>
> Thanks for that link, I didn't know of dbmail. This looks pretty similar
> to what archiveopteryx does (www.archiveopteryx.org), which however has
> support for virtual folders (they call it "views").

Heh, thanks for that link, I didn't know of archiveopteryx ;-)

It does indeed look similar to dbmail, in fact there is a special FAQ
entry that compares the two:
  http://www.archiveopteryx.org/faq/mailstore#dbmail

I'm intrigued about the possibility for virtual folders in
archiveopteryx, I hope to get a chance to try this soon.

> Both seem a bit oversized for a single user though, and I guess you
> would need your own server to easily access your mail from different
> machines? Also, I'm really happy with Dovecot, and there would have to
> be some serious advantages to make me switch to something else. And
> there are many people who happily use commercial IMAP services
> (Fastmail, Google, whatever), which should also be able to have fast
> full text search.
>
> What I'd really love to see is a client-only solution, e.g. a program
> which creates a *local* index from a *remote* IMAP server.

I typically use several different computers, so I prefer a server-side
solution. One of my biggest gripes about Gnus is that some
meta-information (.newsrc.eld etc.) is stored on the client instead of
the server. This means that the count of unread messages typically is
wrong when I move from one computer to another.

Yes, I know about solutions like this:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSync

 - Vegard V -