Re: [Tracker] Indexing Evolution mails

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi Pascal,

On mar, 2014-02-18 at 18:35 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post here. I'd like to index my Evolution emails. I
> have added the .local/share/evolution directory but it seems that it
> does not get indexed.

I fear you've been looking in the wrong direction, Tracker does
implement Evolution email indexing as an evolution plugin, it must be
compiled (distros don't usually do though) and activated under the
Edit/Plugins menu option in evolution.

> Searching around I've not found information about doing this. It seems
> that tracker does not index the hidden directories (starting with dot),
> is that correct? If it is, this explains why the Evolution mail are not
> indexed as all directories are starting with a dot!

FTR, tracker-miner-fs will skip by default hidden files/directories at
the time of recursing across the filesystem, but it will index any
configured directory you tell it to index, (within a) hidden folder or
not.

What happens here is that tracker-miner-fs indexes the *files* that are
in there, and how Evolution stores its information internally is
meaningless to tracker-miner-fs.

Cheers,
  Carlos