From: Peter Davis <pdavis@pageflexinc.com>
Subject: Re: Why so much memory?
Date: 20 Sep 2002 20:47:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns928FAB65D39FFpdavispageflexinccom@199.103.147.5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxkhegkh9v1.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com>
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> wrote in
news:vxkhegkh9v1.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com:
> Peter Davis <pdavis@pageflexinc.com> writes:
>> 1) "Aging" messages - this is different from expiry. I'd like
>> messages from last year to be moved to an archive group. I could set
>> up auto-expire to do this, but then I'd lose the feature of using
>> 'expire' to delete unwanted messages after a week.
>
> When I want to delete unwanted messages, I use `B DEL' directly. I
> use expiry group parameters on a per-group basis, thus:
[...]
Thanks. I had thought of doing something like this. I actually like
the feature that messages I delete won't disappear immediately, though
in fact, I *very* rarely need it. Perhaps your approach is the best.
>> 2) Searching - Gnus doesn't provide any good way to search through
>> old messages. I know about nnir, but so far, I have not succeeded in
>> getting a search engine running on Windows to make this work.
>
> If you haven't tried it yet, give swish++ a shot.
> http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/
> I use it under Linux, but it purports to build under Windows as well,
> as long as you have Cygwin installed, which can be obtained easily
> enough.
I do have Cygwin installed. I tried swish++ once, but never managed to
produce an index. If I remember correctly, I wound up with a 0-sized
index. Perhaps it's time to try again.
Thanks,
-pd
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Peter Davis Pageflex Inc
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617-868-0784 (FAX) Cambridge, MA 02142
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