Re: beagle imap handling?

["ivo welch" <ivowel gmail com>]

thank you.  unfortunately, the old evolution 2.4.2.1 crashes under
amd64 gentoo with
  (evolution:7120): e-canvas-background.c-CRITICAL **: ecb_style_set:
assertion `ecb->priv->gc != NULL' failed
and the new evolution 2.6.0-r1 does not yet build under it.  I would
love to try out a working binary.  :-(

beagle would definitely be more useful if it eventually acquired the
smarts to also index imap servers, too.  I am keeping my fingers
crossed.

regards,

/iaw


On 5/1/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 17:17 -0400, ivo welch wrote:
> > the ad says that kmail can serve as a data source.  does this mean
> > that after I have set up my imap accounts in kmail, beagle will pull
> > in all the messages existing on the server?  do the messages have to
> > have been downloaded (or at least their headers) once, or will beagle
> > just crawl all mailboxes on the imap server?
>
> I'm not that familiar with the KMail backend (I know the Evolution one),
> but I believe messages have to be downloaded to be indexed.  Beagle
> itself won't contact your IMAP server.
>
> For the Evolution backend, we index the full message if it is cached
> locally on disk and fall back to summary info (basically headers) if it
> isn't.  I'm not sure if KMail keeps a similar summary or stores headers
> locally.
>
> Joe