From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57915 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Leifer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Searching emails on an IMAP server? Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:34:44 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: James Leifer NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087648636 8948 80.91.224.253 (19 Jun 2004 12:37:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6456@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jun 19 14:37:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bbf5p-0008GG-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:37:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bbf3m-0006K1-00; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bbf3a-0006IJ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bbf3Y-0001i3-Dh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB4C3A00BB for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:34:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from muscadet.inria.fr (muscadet.inria.fr [128.93.8.12]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5JCYiSH021250 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:34:44 +0200 Original-Received: by muscadet.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 11404) id 28D297A5D; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:34:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Niklas Morberg's message of "Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:54:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40D432E4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57915 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57915 Niklas Morberg 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