From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68460 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail group by author? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:46:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fxgvnz4k.fsf@escher.local.home> <86myajqjec.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d4bb3ba7.fsf@engster.org> <87skk7wq2y.fsf@uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239965202 6325 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2009 10:46:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:46:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16895@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 17 12:48:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lulby-0000RW-Bq for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LulaN-0001zw-VR; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LulaM-0001zY-5Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LulaG-0001sc-G9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Lulaf-0000AQ-00 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:46:37 +0200 Original-Received: from kafka.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.48] helo=kafka) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LulaE-0003R0-QY for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:46:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87skk7wq2y.fsf@uninett.no> (Vegard Vesterheim's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:07:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68460 Archived-At: Vegard Vesterheim writes: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:00:16 +0200 David Engster 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. 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"). 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. -David