Re: Why so much memory?

Re: Why so much memory?

[Linh Dang]

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. 

This would be really nice!

>
> 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.  Without a
> good way to search, having more groups makes it more difficult to find
> messages. 

add a grep backend to nnir. I've hack nrgrep (the fastest grep I've
found) to do record reporting and add a nrgrep backend to search my
nnfolders. If you use mail-directory backends it would be trivial to
add grep to nnir.


>
> Thanks,
>

Re: Why so much memory?

[Peter Davis]

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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