Re: Recommend an email index tool for Emacs?

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

* Charles Philip Chan (2006-12-31 10:49 -0500) said:
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> On 31 Dec 2006, sdl.web@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I have read that Wiki page. The thing is it failed to compare each
>> tool.
>
> All the variants of Swish and Namazu are general full-text search
> engines. From what I know Namazu:
>
>      http://namazu.org/index.html.en
>
> is lighter than Swish on resources and faster to index. It also comes
> with an Emacs frontend to search any Namazu db.
>
> Mairix:
>
>      http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/   
>
> however is designed for just emails. It's indexing is very fast and
> light on resources.
>
> Charles

Thank you Charles. I will look into those tools.

It seems Gnome is adopting another tool -- tracker (doesn't depend on
Gnome at all). It is new, so there isn't an Emacs interface to it.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker

,----[ tracker ]
| Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database,
| tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer.
| 
| It consists of a common object database that allows entities to have
| an almost infinte number of properties, metadata (both
| embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive
| database of keywords/tags and links to other entities.
| 
| It provides additional features for file based objects including
| context linking and audit trails for a file object.
| 
| It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata. retrieve and
| search all types of files and other first class objects.
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