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

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 01:39:20 +0100
Ángel González <angel 16bits net> wrote:

> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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].
>
>
> What about evolution ibex then?
> Or thunderbird's gloda [1] (yes, it does include message bodies)
>
>
> Not that I like them, though. Personally, I prefer to pay the IO/CPU
> penalty when performing searches (almost always restricted to an email
> subtree) than paying the space one duplicating the account data in a
> search index.
>
> But I understand that fulltext indexing everything suits other
> people's workflow.
>
>
> 1- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database

I misunderstand your request and thought that you were searching within
one message. Indeed, I can confirm that searching for a keyword in the
message's bodies, in a folder with tons of messages takes very long and
often the results are terrible. I experienced Mozilla's, e.g.
Thunderbird as very fast and providing correct results. As already
mentioned, I'm using local POP accounts the size of the mailboxes might
be several MiBs, perhaps GiBs.