Hi Nick: I am a mairix user (Claws Mail; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; ~55K+ messages
saved. Mairix works really well; I use it multiple times, daily. I have
mairix configured to save my results to a separate Claws mail folder, and
the mairix queries (albeit lacking support for hyphenation etc.) run
quickly - instantaneously, practically. I update the mairix database
almost daily as it only takes 2-3 seconds (my high-end machine: i7 CPU
hyper-threaded to 8 cores ...; SSD drives) via a .bashrc alias (mrxud) ...
If I need more sophisticated searching, I can simply do a broad mairix
query, then regex-search the mairix results folder using Claws (s:"some
word or phrase & b:"some other word, phrase, ...") - particularly
hyphenated words or specific phrases (enclosed in quotation marks, " ") ,
...
The mairix indexing is blazingly fast (at least on my new machine: the SSD
is ~70x faster than my old mechanical HDD)!! I wish the code was
available, as I am curious as to how it is implemented. An alternative to
mairix might be Apache Solr ... I recall seeing a front-end that indexed
e-mail with attachments also parsed / sub-indexed / indented with the main
results; very cool.
Hope this helps! :-)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Nick Drage <ni...@funkyjesus.org> wrote:
> I'm planning to build an email indexing script, but was looking for
> software that would create a database of the email content for me, so
> all I'd need to do was run queries, rather than figure out how to index
> the emails in the first place.
>
> So I'm intrigued by mairix, but as the main URL for the software now
> points to the author's about.me page, and I believe this is the first
> email to the mailing list this year, I'm wondering if the software is
> essentially dead?
>
> If so, and you've moved on, can you recommend alternatives? In
> particular for Arch Linux... namazu is the only software that looks
> similar, and that's also not been updated for some time.
>
> Thank you.
>
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