Re: Indexing Gnus (and other...) mails

[Ronan Keryell]

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

> Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com> writes:
>
> Hi Ronan,
>
>> I'm looking for an efficient solution to index my mail that becomes a
>> huge issue: around 30 GB since 1987...  I've played around with beagle
>> and tracker with no success, except spoling my processors for weeks
>> and 10 GB of index that was never completed...
>
> You could try mairix (+ the gnus nnmairix backend).  According to its
> homepage, it should be quite fast while indexing.  (But still 30GB is
> quite a lot...)

Thank you!

It is a quite good suggestion! I'm going to dig into
http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_43.html

I've tried it but it failed quickly with a "Out of memory (at
rfc822.c:439, -1538 bytes)" whereas it was only using around 200 MB of
memory (I have 3 GB RAM + 8 GB swap available...). I do not have time to
investigate right now but I will try in 2 weeks.

It sounds like a 32-bit bug or limitation on the tool...

BTW, 30 GB is not a lot, it is only 2.28 € at 0.076 €/GB now in
France. :-) It is far less than the cost of all the people that kindly
reply to my answer and the time I'm spending on this issue... :-)
-- 
  Ronan KERYELL
  HPC Project
  FRANCE