[plug] Searching Email

[William Kenworthy]

Create a virtual mail box that contains all 530 mailboxes, then you can
use the built in search across the lot.  About the only use Ive found
for this function that makes sense!

BillK

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 06:14, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have 530 mailboxes with 1.4Gb of mail since 1997. I use Evolution as
> my interface. Yesterday I manually (six clicks per box:-) converted each
> of those mailboxes from mbox to maildir because I need a means of
> searching my mail.
> 
> Evolution allows you to search per box, but 1.4Gb of mail in one box is
> not useful. I used to grep, then locate the mailbox, then go and read
> the message, this is annoying me.
> 
> I installed swish++ to index my mail, but it only supports the maildir
> format. Now that I've indexed my mail, this search is only marginally
> better than grep.
> 
> What do people use to search their mail?
> 
> I'm happy to launch a web-browser - there is one running most of the
> time any way - but what do others use?
> 
> PS. Evolution 1.4.6 from Debian Testing
> 
> Onno Benschop 
> 
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