From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OSX Mail app =?utf-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= Emacs ? Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:18:32 +0800 Message-ID: <87lgp9p32f.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496499598 3414 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 14:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 14:19:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 16:19:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9uE-0000dQ-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:19:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9uJ-0006m1-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9tl-0006ld-Lr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9th-0000ME-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:19:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60373 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9th-0000LW-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dH9tZ-0006vu-2X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:19:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VQr0bTRJhB/N0v9XyNPE1n2mXQA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113344 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > >> I would recommend a backend which stores mails >> single files (one file per mail), e.g. nnml. >> That way you can use the shell tools on the >> mails much easier than those >> many-mails-in-one-file methods. > > This is an overpromise. It *may* make using shell tools easier *if* > your mail is all in English, and even more so if it’s all plain text. > > I am using the single-message-per-file format for my mail archive at > work. Here’s a typical line of text out of that archive: > > font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif; font-size:24px; font-style= > : italic; display: block; text-align: center; margin: 0;">
=D0=9F=D1=80= > =D0=B8=D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=82, =D0=AE=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=B9! > > As you can see, the only greppable thing in there is the irrelevant > HTML markup, and all the actual text (which is often UTF-8 but still > sometimes KOI8-R or windows-1251) is safely encoded in > quoted-printable. Assuming that we're talking about searching, you can use an external program like notmuch or mairix to index your messages, and Gnus will happy interface with those programs.