Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir

[Richard Riley]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
>>> Out of couriosity: Is there a special reason you're using mairix
>>> instead
>>
>> Not really, other than finding an article about it a while back.
>>
>>> of Dovecot's Squat full text search engine?  That indexes new mail
>>> automatically and also works for non-ascii text in mails.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up! How do you integrate gnus with it though?
>
> Like this:
>
>
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>              '(nnimap "Fastmail"
>                       (nnimap-address "localhost")
>                       (nnimap-stream network)
>                       (nnimap-authenticator login)
>                       (nnir-search-engine imap))) ;; <-- THIS LINE
>
>
>
> Then you can search a group (or a set of marked groups) with `G G'.
>
>> Just to be sure we're singing from the same hymn sheet : by "index" I
>> mean to enable fast searches using nnmairix-search.
>
> Yes, that's what I talk about to, but here this work is done on the imap
> side completely.
>
>> How is your gnus set up to work with this Squat? Sounds interesting.
>
> Like stated above.  On the dovecot side it's only one line, too.
>
>
>
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = fts fts_squat # <-- THIS LINE
>   listen = 127.0.0.1:143
>   ssl_listen = 127.0.0.1:943
> }
>

Unfortunately the plugin is missing from the debian package.