Re: [Tracker] Issues with evolution mail indexing

["Adrien Bustany" <abustany gnome org>]

> Hi, I just compiled tracker 0.9.30 to use with evolution 2.32 (since
> searching in my mails is the primary reason for me to use an indexer,
> that is just really useful). However, the mail indexing seems quite
> broken. Some issues I have seen so far (just playing around for a few
> minutes):
> 1. I have a bunch of mails from "John Johnsson", one of them with the
> subject "A really good and unique subject". When I search for John
> Johnsson I see only one mail from this guy, and not the mail I mention
> here. But if I search for "unique" I get a hit on that mail, and the gui
> shows that it is from John Johnsson.
> 2. It doesn't seem to index the body of the mails (or maybe it is just
> same issue as above)
As far as I know we don't index the body of the mails for performance
reasons, it makes evolution die...

> 3. The indexing doesn't retrieve mails for indexing. If I create a new
> account with a lot of old mails, I need to click on the mailboxes for
> them to get indexed (since evolution fetches the summary then). I
> understand why this is, but it would be good to have some option in the
> evolution plugin to force indexing of all mails causing it to just
> download and index every mail. I don't know if evolution makes this
> possible...
> 4. Searching for parts of words doesn't work as I expect. For example
> with the mail above searching for '*que*' or just 'que' should give a
> hit on that according to me since it matches 'unique'. Searching for
> 'uni' gives a hit with the current version, so starts with seems to be
> ok but not contains.
I think we only support prefix matching, needs to be confirmed.

> 5. Can't open emails from the search gui
This is an evolution limitation. Yes, it is annoying.

> 6. The gui doesn't give much info for the emails, I would like more of a
> list like the original evolution inbox view for emails.
A new gui, tracker-needle, is in development. It might be a bit better in
that regard. You can check the tracker-needle branch in the git repository.

> Just some feedback... hope it helps.
It is appreciated, thanks!

> //Mattias

Cheers

Adrien

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