Re: nnir and fast email searches

[Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>]

James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr> writes:

> I run a nightly cron job that indexes all my mail, which consists of
> about 30K messages stored in maildir or mh format (one file per
> message).  The indexing is performed by swish++ which is easy to get
> and available prepackaged under Debian woody and many other distros.
>
> When I want to search, I populate a directory with symlinks to the
> messages swish++ returns.

Would you care to share the code you have to achieve this?
Also, how do read the messages from within gnus?

> I believe nnir.el can use swish++, though I don't know nnir.el well.

I tried to get this working, but failed. See [tedious
searching at gmane.org] thread
<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57947>

I started using the agent to fetch messages (I'm using
imap), but that was not as smooth as I wanted (too slow and
somewhat inconsistent behaviour -- I needed to delete the
agent hierarchy and restart a couple of times). Instead I'm
planning on using offlineimap and then index them using a
search engine.

The remaining problem is to integrate the search results
with gnus.

By the way, Zoe <URL:http://www.zoe.nu> is really nice.
Works like a charm and without much hassle. Its main
problems are no integration with gnus and slowness when your
search yields many results.

Niklas