Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Fast full-text search of e-mails?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:32:20 +0100
> Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 18:22 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Searches with Evolution on my machine take hours
> > That highly depends on account types (remote vs local) that you didn't
> > mention.
> Local POP accounts. And it's also OT, because what takes hours is
> searching within GiB, perhaps just many MiB of mails ;), not the search
> within one mail.

I doubt there is a MUA that is going to nicely handle full-text search
of very large mailboxes.  You really need an index to handle that type
of search - and I am not aware of any MUA which indexes message
*content* [vs. headers and meta-data].

For that - if it really is maildir or MBOX format messages - I'd look at
using Tracker for the search, if possible.

For IMAP backens, at least Cyrus IMAPd, pretty good message body search
performance is achieved by letting the server handle the search - in the
case of Cyrus that would be using SQUATter indexes.

> > > At the moment I can't say what MUA does fit best to my needs
> > Sure, but that's pretty offtopic for this thread...
> My apologies. I'm frustrated, Evolution doesn't fit that good to my
> work-flow anymore, but I also don't know another MUA that does.
> Regarding to my work-flow all MUAs come with advantages and
> disadvantages.

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