From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:13 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <874qy4vbg7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87n0bwqqfg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066642719 12650 80.91.224.253 (20 Oct 2003 09:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 11:38:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABWUn-0003EV-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:38:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABWUn-0007kj-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:38:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABWR3-0007jZ-P3 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABWQq-0007j0-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABWQK-0007bp-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABWQK-0007bf-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABWQJ-0004rN-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:59 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABWQI-0004rF-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABWQI-00038j-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:33:58 +0200 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Nobukazu Takemura's _10th_: "astral beads" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEWlg0zOOiH98dn77NPo z5o2IBxg4I3IAAACLElEQVR4nFWTvZLrIAyFxQZ6NNf0WXB6Dzg9tnFvF7z/q9wj8OZHRTLjDx0J 6UC6XKGYFDPnWg86iKiULc2d6IXZZkAWsKW/yLow68y1cv0CiSSPXK1nPcwnmEiigVo/QTLMRAaA XlIhRR/SU4ACQIcd+JRiwI/DWeUqK7a0ttMSwftdANoV0DOgE6W8SFlDTSrK1xZAuCGAacVjE4od 4u66ZHxm2vxfoIa/AyiW2aBGkBoI+RtPHpiHheWCs46vLH8I4MXJSKa6tm8NL1/gXcf/skZnIrUG zGB9gbtUHqT4ipnq8gKjlZU2IF3Tu2csFvOVsbclvLXMcVzAOOcsjjYYAE6DBaL44hwPfp7Rxoap 7SJFhIwJfW/eTLSO2s+bAJjE4FwmHYMqlCb9s9+eJ9cO/EwaFRLN+bjtt8fJItXAfmtgwQ6W20PB WAKiz/PgPRU5V5Zhqtc94mgDr1KjTGQXPdXTdfBrZ/4HKY3ielkf9brgutjihlASurqlKT7QLRvH FBcmZ0uGVMH81ieaRV+ONnTB3DbbVvw8DkvGADDXk2Mzlgxx7859A5+6j/ZadabcAAKTDd0S2CcM lJnKBcRxgvA2tJj+BXy3VzhwhW/QE0YMRiub1R8IV8ZUldUZ5T+lJOMJAB2A7TvDVHXI64B98Py7 E1sGZkFSWuF9jLmZp91jPC4AKX+BFg8BVnerjWV9md0otGvp5/4BukGdAP0DQ8dPcMc8JQOv8z9O AqbScnStXgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N/XqwOQ40X698MVOmoMf0njrVjc= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17259 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17259 Juri Linkov writes: >> And all that just to be able to use grep? Why not have the mail >> reader be able to do searches for you instead? > > Searches done by mail reader are not effective (or I'd rather say they are > "effective" with the first letter "d", i.e. "defective" :-), because > mail reader needs to parse MIME parts and decode base64/qp regions on > every of hundreds messages, and repeat all this again on every new search. Perhaps, perhaps not. Some mailers (I've been told) generate indexes when they receive messages. When you do searches, the mailer looks stuff up in the index. Grepping several GBs worth of mail isn't very efficient. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen