Re: [Tracker] index evolution mail is broken

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 22:12 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> Evolution 2.24 has migrate to use sqlite to store mail's summary.
>
> So the parser which is based on parsing Summaryãfile is broken.

A better idea would be that if we'd instead of trying to parse
Evolution's file ourselves, make a Evolution plugin that over IPC,
shmem, pipe() or whatever pumps its data over to us.

Right now trying to parse Evolution's hideous file formats is quite
crazy, and each time they change their format we will have to fix our
code too.

It's also "not correct" to read Evolution's internal cache files.
Evolution is not designed to either cope with another process tampering
with its caches nor will it care about the other process, at all.

If you guys at Sun want to join to fun, such a Evolution plugin would be
an excellent contribution indeed. Perhaps also one for Thunderbird and
some other E-mail clients ... and we can safely enter 2009!


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