Re: [Evolution] Searching emails?

[Thomas Novin <thomas xyz pp se>]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 06:12 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.02.2011, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Thomas Novin:
> > Hello
> >
> > I constantly have a need for searching through my emails. For my Gmail
> > account I usually go to Gmail Webmail which has a very advanced way of
> > doing this (if you know the search filters) and it's extremely fast.
> >
> > For my other account which is an IMAP-connection to an Exchange-server I
> > can only search from within Evolution. Since the search function is
> > limited, 
>
> What do you mean by "limited"?

No so much limited by number of searches you can do, more that I find
that it often doesn't work or is extremely slow. I just now did a  body
search for 'distributed' in "Current Accounts". After 5 minutes I shut
down Evolution because I didn't want to wait any longer. No real CPU
usage either so I doubt much was going on.

Then instead did the search with grep. In < 5 secs it was done with two
matches.

In Gmail search this was completed < 3 sec with lots of more matches.
Probably because that search is case insensitive.

> > right now my best way is to 'grep -ri <query>' in
> > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/imap/xxx'. For example, doing a body
> > search in Evolution in "Current Account" will show nothing from a search
> > that gives 100s of matches with grep.
> >
> > I tried Google Desktop but it would only index emails from Thunderbird,
> > not Evolution.
> >
> > Any suggestions? I want a fully indexed search and would like to be able
> > to specify all the "common" attributes.
> >
> > Btw, I'm on Evolution 2.32.2.
> >
> > Rgds//Thomas
>
> Tracker also scans evolution mails, see
> http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/.

Tracker has been very broken in the past but now I noticed there is a
0.10 version just released. I will try it as soon as I find a good way
to install it on Ubuntu.

Rgds//Thomas