Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-22 23:28:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > No, I wasn't expecting mutt to use mairix. But I thought you might be > > using it. Otherwise, why do you index them? > > I use mairix when I need a "body" search first, otherwise such a > search would be awfully slow with Mutt. Then I can open the generated > folder with Mutt, and try to do more filtering to find what I want.
I was under the impression that mairix could do both. > > I also wondered what the problem would be with putting the thousands > > of emails in a general purpose database. > > But Mutt can't use such a database. I was thinking of a scenario where you retrieve the matching emails and place them in a scratch directory, then run mutt on that folder so you can still read the results with an email interface. Of course I have no idea whether you're trying to match a few emails or thousands at a time. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150423151054.GA8639@alum
