On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 01:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 01:39:20 +0100 > Ángel González <an...@16bits.net> wrote: > > > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > > > > I doubt there is a MUA that is going to nicely handle full-text > > > search of very large mailboxes. You really need an index to handle > > > that type of search - and I am not aware of any MUA which indexes > > > message *content* [vs. headers and meta-data]. > > > > > > What about evolution ibex then? > > Or thunderbird's gloda [1] (yes, it does include message bodies) > > > > > > Not that I like them, though. Personally, I prefer to pay the IO/CPU > > penalty when performing searches (almost always restricted to an email > > subtree) than paying the space one duplicating the account data in a > > search index. > > > > But I understand that fulltext indexing everything suits other > > people's workflow. > > > > > > 1- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database > > I misunderstand your request and thought that you were searching within > one message. Indeed, I can confirm that searching for a keyword in the > message's bodies, in a folder with tons of messages takes very long and > often the results are terrible. I experienced Mozilla's, e.g. > Thunderbird as very fast and providing correct results. As already > mentioned, I'm using local POP accounts the size of the mailboxes might > be several MiBs, perhaps GiBs.
I seem to have touched off a bit of a discussion here... It sounds like Evolution's indexing support is very protocol-specific. I guess my specific question should be: Does Evolution EWS support full-text indexing? If not: It seems like the functionality does exist for POP. Is there a known interesting technical reason why it would be hard to just enable the same thing for EWS (when all e-mail is cached offline)? Or is it just a matter of "no one has gotten around to it yet?" Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
