Re: A few small Beagle bits

[Michael Bayne <mdb samskivert com>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Christopher Orr wrote:

> 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.

That seems like a very sensible strategy. I just use pine which deals 
directly with the IMAP server and maintains no local cache. Perhaps the 
simplest thing for me to do is just use some other software to maintain a 
local cache of my IMAP folders and then do a trivial LuceneQueryable 
derivation that indexes those files directly.

The fiddly bit is handling deletions I suppose, which I don't think the 
current MailQueryable implementation handles either.

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