Re: [Tracker] searching maildir emails

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Eyal Oren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a question about searching Maildir emails. The same issue came up 
> in the Beagle list, but without a good solution. In the end, it's not 
> really tracker's problem, but I thought I could ask you guys for 
> suggestions and ideas.
>
> The point is, I'm using mutt to read my Maildir emails. Tracker indexes and 
> finds these emails without any problems, but then I don't know how to open 
> them. The deskbar handler opens them as text files (using my gnome default 
> text editor) but that is quite awkward:
> - I don't want to see all my email headers
> - The context of the email (conversation, folder) is lost in a text editor
>
> I haven't figured out how to use mutt to open a specific email in a Maildir 
> folder, but that would be the best solution.  In Beagle, they sort-of 
> ignored the problem, because they rely more-or-less on Evolution. I guess 
> mutt is not so popular anymore these days, but what do people do with for 
> example thunderbird?
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?  (I also use mairix to search my emails 
> from within mutt, and it works great, but it's just inconvenient to have 
> two indexers and search engines running at the same time)

Emails (from any mbox file) will  be supported in future versions.

Once Emails are broken down by tracker into component parts, I expect a 
gui tool like baracuda will be able to display the email nicely 
formatted (and as we store the mail uri I expect evolution stuff to work 
as it does with Beagle)

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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