[plug] Searching Email

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:14, Onno Benschop wrote:
> What do people use to search their mail?

It's a sign of old age, replying to one's own email, but I just have to
share something I learnt in the past hour.

	apt-cache search search mail index

That gave back these results:
        mairix - Indexes and searches email in Maildir and MH formats
        mh-e - Emacs interface to the MH mail system
        swish++ - Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version
        htdig - WWW search system for an intranet or small internet

Not using Emacs and disliking htdig and having tried swish++, I looked
at mairix.

I have to say: "Wow!"

The user interface is:
	mairix

(That generated the index and an upgraded index, for cron takes about 60
seconds.)

The search is:
	mairix plug searching email evolution

The resulting 5 hits are stored in the mailbox format of your
preference, which you can place inside your mail program of choice. For
maildir, it creates symlinks to the message.

Thus, I do the search, browse to my designated mail folder within
Evolution, and there are my matched messages...

*Very* niiice.

Now all I need to do is make a nice UI with a little shortcut on my
menu-bar and we're be good to go.

But this is too good not to tell you about.

Oh, and of course the install was apt-get install mairix and the config
file has 5 lines, all explained keyword by keyword in the manual.

I'm happy...

Onno Benschop 

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