Re: OSX Mail app → Emacs ?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
>
>> I would recommend a backend which stores mails
>> single files (one file per mail), e.g. nnml.
>> That way you can use the shell tools on the
>> mails much easier than those
>> many-mails-in-one-file methods.
>
> This is an overpromise. It *may* make using shell tools easier *if*
> your mail is all in English, and even more so if it’s all plain text.
>
> I am using the single-message-per-file format for my mail archive at
> work. Here’s a typical line of text out of that archive:
>
> <td colspan=3D"3" color=3D"white"><span style=3D"color: white; =
> font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif; font-size:24px; font-style=
> : italic; display: block; text-align: center; margin: 0;"><br>=D0=9F=D1=80=
> =D0=B8=D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=82, =D0=AE=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=B9! </span></td>
>
> As you can see, the only greppable thing in there is the irrelevant
> HTML markup, and all the actual text (which is often UTF-8 but still
> sometimes KOI8-R or windows-1251) is safely encoded in
> quoted-printable.

Assuming that we're talking about searching, you can use an external
program like notmuch or mairix to index your messages, and Gnus will
happy interface with those programs.