as an option... i've had pretty good results with http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ I configured it to populate it's results into a folder that is part of my evolution hierarchy, so that that i can use evo to view the 'found' emails (see man mairixrc ) $ cat .mairixrc ####################################################################### # Set this to the directory where your maildir folders live base=MyMaildirFolderBase ####################################################################### # You need to define at least one of maildir, mh and mbox. You probably don't # need to define all three! You can use >1 line for any of these. #mbox=nbox-archive-2008:Sent-2008 maildir=myListOfMailRepositoriesToSearchPerTheManual ####################################################################### # Set this to the folder within 'base' where you want the search mode # to write its output. mfolder=.mairix # this ^^^^^^ folder is in my evo hierarchy, so results linked into # here are visible in evolution # Set this if you want the format of mfolder to be mh or mbox (the default is # maildir). mformat=maildir ####################################################################### # Set this to the path where the index database file will be kept database=/home/rthompso/.mairix_index the mairix index job is cron'd to run several times per hour this index DB isn't small for me, ~300 MB, but i've got well over a hundred thousand emails taking up over 4GB of disk space search body of emails for "Homeland" $ time mairix b:Homeland Matched 6196 messages real 0m0.587s user 0m0.113s sys 0m0.463s I don't have an exact size for the amount of data searched - it's across more than a dozen folders, but it is in excess of 4GB, as the largest maildir directory in my 'index list' is 4GB in size, with 89K+ emails in it
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