Re: [Tracker] Initial email indexing support

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 Ã 16:33 -0400, Samuel Cormier-Iijima a
Ãcrit :
> On 9/24/06, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 21 septembre 2006 Ã 16:47 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > > Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> > > > Le jeudi 21 septembre 2006 Ã 00:50 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > > > > Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> > > > > > Le mercredi 20 septembre 2006 Ã 14:11 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > > > > > > Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > this is a patch for an initial email indexing support with Evolution. It
> > > > > > > > extracts content of sent and received emails: text + attachments.
> > > > > have now applied to cvs with a few changes:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) added tracker_notify_file_data_available () after pushing data onto queue
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) mbox files should not get to extract_metadata thread so have changed
> > > > > them in index_files. Only attachements can get on this thread.
> > > > >
> > > > > 3) set the default email config options to false as its not yet complete.
> > > > >
> > > > > Otherwise really good work :)
> > > >
> > > > Ok.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I send a patch to extract info from evolution mails to know whether they
> > > > are deleted or junk. As I said before, Evolution is completely buggy...
> > > > On my mbox almost all my mails are seen as deleted! I report a trivial
> > > > bug that I found in code source but I don't know if it is the (or a?)
> > > > culprit.
> > >
> > > Is there a difference in the flags when you explicitly delete a mail as
> > > opposed to a new mail?
> >
> > Yes. X-Evolution field in email's headers is modified. For instance:
> >   X-Evolution: 00002019-0092
> > where only "0092" is interesting for use.
> >
> > Suppose you receive an email that only contains text (no attachments, no
> > pgp signature, etc.):
> > - new (unseen): 0000,
> > - seen: 0010,
> > - deleted: 0012,
> > - junk: 0090,
> > - deleted and junk: 0092.
> >
> >
> > Now, let see how flags are declared:
> >
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_ANSWERED     = 1 << 0,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_DELETED      = 1 << 1,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_DRAFT        = 1 << 2,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_FLAGGED      = 1 << 3,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_SEEN         = 1 << 4,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_ATTACHMENTS  = 1 << 5,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_ANSWERED_ALL = 1 << 6,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_JUNK         = 1 << 7,
> >  EVOLUTION_MESSAGE_SECURE       = 1 << 8
> >
> > So (0090) = (1011010)b and it means:
> > - deleted,
> > - flagged,
> > - seen,
> > - answered all.
> >
> > It is completely different from what I described!
>
> These are supposed to be hex, i.e. 0090 = 10010000b, so it's junk and
> it's been seen. Similarly, 0010 = 00010000b, so that means it's just
> been seen.

Mmmmmmmmm... Ok.

Thank you.


Laurent.