Anyone got an archive system for their mail/news?
>>>>> "JZ" == Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Zawinski)
writes:
JZ> Kyle Jones wrote:
>> Feeling were mixed. Most liked it but almost eveyrone said it
>> was slow. I don't know that it buys you much more than sorting
>> by subject. I'd like to here other opinions about that.
JZ> I didn't try this particular threads package, but threading,
JZ> in general, is great. In particular the ability to jump to
JZ> the parent of this message without having to sort the whole
JZ> folder.
Agree!
JZ> Howver I really want the ability to jump to the parent of a
JZ> message when that parent might not be in the same folder. So
JZ> there needs to be an external database of message IDs, which
JZ> would have to be able to respond quickly when there were many
JZ> thousands of entries (basically I want it to index all of my
JZ> mail, going back years.)
I'd love such a database!
It is too slow/difficult to retrieve information from stored
mails/news articles. Today I use mail folders and VM as archive, but
the folders grow too big. And there is no good way of searching for
e.g. a regexp in a subject field in some/all folders (I use grep:(. In
other words I would like an index file and a nice VM or gnus like
interface.
JZ> I was playing around with doing this sort of thing with WAIS a
JZ> while back, but it was just way too buggy - 50% of the time
JZ> I'd get a core file instead of an index. dbm databases would
JZ> probably be enough.
What about edb or bbdb or even something based on hyperbole ?-)
Regards, Harald Backer
SINTEF Automatic Control : Phone +47 7359 4375
The Norwegian Institute of Technology : Fax +47 7359 4399
N-7034 Trondheim : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NORWAY
