From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recommend an email index tool for Emacs? Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:58:15 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <878xgemrd4.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168207150 17917 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2007 21:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 07 22:59:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3g2d-0002o0-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:58:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g2Z-0005gp-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g2L-0005fo-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:58:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g2J-0005ct-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g2J-0005co-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:58:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H3g2I-0007Eg-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:58:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H3g28-0006b7-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.166.37.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from wohler by h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:58:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CxLJ3twcRnfJ9Hhr26H0qVbTgr4= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40180 Archived-At: Leo writes: > Now I got a few thousands of emails on my harddisk. I tried grep once > and it is not very fast. Thus do you think an indexing tool is handy > and which one to go? I use swish++, but mairix and namazu are also good choices. MH-E handles these search engines out of the box. See http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/Searching.html#Searching On my laptop, swish++ indexes my "latest" 45,000 messages for 570 MB in a couple of minutes so I do it a couple of times a day. -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD