On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:45:01PM -0800, Jon Bach wrote: > > Is there any way to limit the number of results of a search? I > don't see any mention of it in the documentation. With hundreds of > thousands of emails indexed, anytime someone not thinking searches > for "a" it bogs up the server for a very long time.
I usually just do ^C if I think the search is taking too long. Then rerun with a d: parameter to limit the date range (remembering --unlock too; the development version removes the lockfile on an interrupt but that isn't in the last release.) It sounds like a good idea, but which 200 mails do you want? I think you're going to end up using a date range or something anyway. For now, you could probably script what you want with something involving $(mairix -r "$@" | wc -l) or similar, and abandon the real search if this returns too many results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mairix-users mailing list Mairix-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mairix-users
