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

[Richard Riley]

Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I think he meant it's rather a ridiculous amount of email.
>
> Yes I understand. And I reply that just trying to diminish this CPU and
> disk usage does not worth the price of the brain time. :-)
>
>>  Even 20 years of email amounting to 30 Gig is a LOT for a single
>> person ! Are you sure you remembered to delete all the "oh so funny"
>> emails with hugs powerpoint attachments :-)
>
> A mail sent is a mail sent. So it is archived. :-)
>
> Oops! I've forgot to archive the SPAM. :-(
>
> 640 KB of mail is enough for everybody is not a good argument to
> convince me. :-)

You send and receive 4 megabytes a day for twenty years?

Incredible.

And no one mentioned 640 Megs. If you truly need to index that much then
good luck!

Since I suspect you only really want a quick find on email from the past
year or so then you could index that seperately.

I use mairix with gnus and its instant and I have about 4 years of
emails indexed.