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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:00:16 +0200 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> To do something like that in Gnus, you need an external indexer. Mairix
> is just one possibility, but it's well suited for Gnus because it
> directly creates the resulting mailbox, so you don't have to parse large
> amounts of output in Emacs Lisp. Alternatively, you could surely also
> use search engines like Lucene, Xapian, Sphinx, etc., but those would
> need much more work to interface them with Gnus.

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.

One of the missing parts seems to be support for Virtual Folders:
http://dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=v-folders
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-lemonade-vfolder-01.txt

Has anyone tried the combination dbmail/GNUS?

 - Vegard V -