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Re: gnus and namazu, glimpse, swish-e or swish++ ?
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Michael Piotrowski |
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Re: gnus and namazu, glimpse, swish-e or swish++ ? |
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Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:58:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) |
On 2006-07-17 John Sullivan <usenet@wjsullivan.net> wrote:
> But, for mail searching, if you are using maildir, check out mairix. I
> haven't looked at integrating it into emacs yet, but it builds a
> maildir folder containing links to the matching messages, which you
> can then browse in Gnus. I can't believe how fast it searches -- it's
> unreal.
Very true! The indexing is also *very* fast.
I'm using a very simple "integration" into Gnus (I'm using nnml for
normal mail and nnfolder for archive groups). I created a directory
~/Mail/search-results and put the following in ~/.mairixrc:
#v+
base=~/Mail
mh=mail...:list...
mbox=archive/sent-mail/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]:archive/sent-news
mformat=mh
mfolder=search-results
database=/home/mxp/.mairix_db
#v-
I then added ~/Mail/search-results as a foreign nnmh group in Gnus (I
also made it "permanently visible" so that it's easier to find). For
searching I simply use something like
M-! mairix f:larsi RET g
in the Group buffer and I can then browse the results in the
search-results group.
The only minor annoyances are that I have to press g to update the
group before entering it the first time and that the message counts
are (understandably) *way* off. Apart from that I'm very satisfied
with this setup: It's easy, fast, and transparent.
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <mxp@dynalabs.de>
Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>