Re: [Tracker] Indexing mbox files

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:04 +0200, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would you be interested in an extractor that extract information from
> mailboxes written in Vala ?

Yes

> If you are, I'll have to ask permission from my employer but I'm sure
> it could be done.

Great. For extractors to go upstream we require them to be licensed as
GPL. You don't need to reassign copyright ownership to us.

> (For the moment, it doesn't do MIME multipart nor threading since that
> wasn't useful for my application)

OK, MIME multipart would be very useful, though.

> I prefer the approach of file extractors to the applications plugin that
> updates the tracker database. The file extractors work for any filetype
> you support while plugins have to be rewritten for every application.

OK

> For example, I don't use evolution, and my mail client changed from
> sylpheed to claws-mail and now Thunderbird and perhaps soon Balsa.
> Writing a plugin for each is a waste of time, especially considering
> they all use standardised formats.

Yes, sure.

> Recently, I just realized that tracker was a wonderful thing. You could
> write an e-mail reader that should just use tracker to find all the
> e-mails you have on your machine.

Indeed

> The same way, we could hae a contacts application that would let you
> see all contacts everywhere on your machine, vCards on your
> ~/Documents, or sent to you as e-mail attachments...

> There is no limitation.

:-)

> Truly interoperable

Awesome that we have a new app developer who undoubtedly is going to
make a lot of software like you just described earlier.

> I'd love such a desktop, thank you guys to make this possible!

No problem.

Thank you for your enthusiasm. You just made our day.


Cheers,

Philip

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Philip Van Hoof
freelance software developer
Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be