From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86542 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: searching local mail stores Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:29:08 +0100 Message-ID: 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> <87d1tgfku2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451986181 10099 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 09:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:29:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34769@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 05 10:29:29 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 1aGNvj-000803-DK for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:29:27 +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 1aGNvf-0000gy-ON; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:29:23 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNvb-0000gR-Rj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:29:19 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNvZ-0003ac-O8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:29:19 -0600 Original-Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNvY-0007nv-1N for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:29:16 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,524,1444687200"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="195637618" Original-Received: from charm-ecran.irisa.fr ([131.254.101.83]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-GCM-SHA256; 05 Jan 2016 10:29:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87d1tgfku2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:15:49 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -7.1 (-------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86542 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2016-01-05 17:15, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > 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 =E2=80=A6) OK, done. I'll look into FTS (probably Luc= ene) >> 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... I want to try it at some point, to compare to what I've been doing (using either notmuch or mu4e). And I really needed to get my dovecot config straightened out, which has just happened. So do not worry, I'm going astray all by myself ;) Alan =2D-=20 OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Athmospheric CO=E2=82=82 (Updated December 28, 2015, Mauna Loa Obs.): 402.6= 0 ppm --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWi4zkAAoJEAQNCjtO0uXHmkgIAMuTCbPeqaN5ElpMHL4cnvCn 3SCx2dqlqgt39abVnMBiurnlR0PzeVcyZEdiH/2WvJwkhnBHZhYtgyZWXr3Qq3gl CYawhLEQC/knhmIK3ic2UotW8SaLqI3pzokWVBeeuZ0fZYvkz1hDMpQCrRV4WFYs CfVJkNdqrNAIRpxfpmAxhvEWDvxu1sIUqoV1Z29MGnP4JTHhLD6b0yKiScWn3HHB zt9xPM91dbYte7dQW4P4a+irm41m6gskabEM6uoLMDWfV2d4xtL+RDhKSaRNee80 ypQLWZbTlHR3IR/iVf2HLisqRzZNv/ZoNlb8zu7TsxkNRRlUfEUnaOh7Jg+1e9s= =Fl6O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--