Re: Searching emails on an IMAP server?

[James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr>]

Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:

> Are there any better options out there? I still want to have
> all my emails on the IMAP-server, but I don't mind a local
> copy (as with Zoe). I use a GNU/Linux system, and the
> IMAP-server is running Exchange.

Hi,

I run a cron job that indexes all my mail, which consists of about 30K
messages stored in maildir or mh format (one file per message)
nightly.  The indexing is performed by swish++ which is available
under Debian woody.

Then when I want to search, I populate a directory with symlinks to
the messages swish++ returned.

Advantages: this gives me nearly instantaneous searching (fraction of
a second) through all my mail.

Disadvantages: the folder of search results does not have the marks
associated with the real messages nor are mark-changes to the search
results propogated to the real messages.

BTW, maybe nnir.el has a swish++ driver?

Cheers,
-James