Re: [Tracker] Evolution + local maildirs indexing?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 15:25 +0200, laurent aguerreche free fr wrote:
> Selon Todd Slater <dontodd gmail com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed tracker from svn to try to get it to index my emails
> > contained in local maildir folders. These folders are populated from
> > gmail via fetchmail - procmail to the appropriate place. I do this to
> > archive mail, I never actually use Evolution.
> >
> > Beagle wasn't finding recent emails, so I launched Evolution and did a
> > send/receive, and it seemed to "read" the mails that were new since
> > the last time I used it. Beagle seems slow to index these, btw, so far
> > it's only up to early March.
> >
> > Anyway, according to the tracker.log, tracker is only indexing a
> > remote imap account. It reports 51 messages, which I believe is
> > accurate for that account, and a search for terms in those mails
> > brings up hits. However, tracker doesn't seem to index my local
> > maildir mails, either as messages or plain text files, even though it
> > reports it's watching those directories.

For Imap to work in real time you need to right click on the imap folder
in evo and select properties and check "copy folder content locally for
offline operation"

(I believe this is the same for Beagle as neither can index new emails
unless the email message is saved locally)


> Maildir or MH is not supported at this time. It shouldn't be difficult
> to add fully support since there is already code but it just needs to be
> done...

yeah I need a volunteer for that - I dont have an MH or MailDir account
so I cant really test/develop it

Anyway glad to see you are back online Laurent :)

jamie.