On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:33:39AM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > 3. Indexed mail searching. Whatever works with your preferred > > mail client. Have cron run a re-index every morning before you > > wake up. > > Care to expand on this one a bit? Not entirely sure what you mean here, > and it's intriguing.
Full-text searching of all your mail folders is a reasonable thing to ask your mail server and/or client to do. notmuch, maildir-utils, mairix, nmzmail are all Debian packaged utilities that will look through all your mail and construct an index so that when you ask for things like: I want the mail from people who have "Dan" in their email addresses and had a subject with "GNU" it can compile that list for your mail client in a second or three, instead of reading through all your mail when you make the query and thus taking several minutes or hours. Each package is a little different: some want to add new messages to an index on arrival, others want to roll through all your mail archives each time you re-index. If you're a mutt user, you should also be using the amazing power of limits to do things like "show me mail in this folder that arrived yesterday and I replied to it" or "show me mail in this folder that is not from my company's domain". -dsr-