Re: A few small Beagle bits

[Christopher Orr <chris protactin co uk>]

Hi all,

On 04/10/04 09:37, Michael Bayne wrote:
> I fixed a small bug in ImLog where it was failing to close a 
> StreamReader (this caused it to freak out when parsing old-style GAIM 
> logs where it creates multiple GaimLog instances for the same file, but 
> the first one leaves its StreamReader open, preventing all subsequent 
> instances from opening and reading the file).

Hurray!  I think that should close bug #153126.

> I haven't looked into it more closely, but queries from the GAIM log 
> take an unexpectedly long time to return (10 to 15 seconds), but I only 
> have about 6 megs of conversation logs (the index files are about 1.3 
> megs). That seems unlikely to be enough data to strain Lucene.

Hmm I don't seem to have that problem.  I managed to query "hi", thus 
pulling out over 180 conversations (and 140 other hits) from 14MB of 
gaim logs in under 5 seconds...

> While I'm yapping, does anyone know if there exists something like the 
> Java Mail library for C#/Mono? I'd like to write a Queryable that talks 
> directly to an IMAP server as I don't happen to use Evolution.

I don't know of any such libraries, I'm afraid.  But are you sure this 
is the best way to go about things?  I believe the preference with 
Beagle is to index data already on your computer rather than access the 
network/implement many different protocols.  Or perhaps I'm just fearing 
for the safety of my IMAP folders.. ;)

I don't know what mail client you have in mind, but I'm not an Evolution 
user either.  I know Thunderbird similarly provides mail summary files, 
however it seems parsing them may be fairly difficult [1].

Regards,
Chris

[1] http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/312657.html