Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-04 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:46:52PM +1000, Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject is half the story. Basically I want a application that allows me to store, index and search email messages. Lets say something that would handle up to 5gb. Basically, my netscape messages are now

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Terry Collins Basically, my netscape messages are now 1.5Gb and neither Mozilla or Thunderbird can touch this lot. Sadly, they all barf on the size/number of folders/etc. Evolution should crank through that number of messages without any major problems. - Jeff -- OSCON 2004:

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins Basically, my netscape messages are now 1.5Gb and neither Mozilla or Thunderbird can touch this lot. Sadly, they all barf on the size/number of folders/etc. Evolution should crank through that number of messages without any major problems.

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Rick Welykochy
Terry Collins wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins Basically, my netscape messages are now 1.5Gb and neither Mozilla or Thunderbird can touch this lot. Sadly, they all barf on the size/number of folders/etc. Evolution should crank through that number of messages without any major

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Terry Collins
Rick Welykochy wrote: ...snip. Unfortunately, Evolution doesn't get to first base for some reason. It keeps barfing on the first folder. No messages. just hangs Okay, the hanging is caused by asking it to import two different things (say mail and settingss )at the same time. So I guess

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 00:05, Terry Collins wrote: Okay, the hanging is caused by asking it to import two different things (say mail and settingss )at the same time. So I guess that it is a bug (allowing you to select two things). I can reliably hang Evolution by deleting two mails quickly

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: Brain remembered above after leaving it for a while (I have been playing with Evolution for a while and SWMBO is now using it). Will see what happens overnight (other than duplicating mail space {:-(. Okay, found out again why I didn't switch to Evolution. It eventually

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 01:47 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Terry Collins wrote: Brain remembered above after leaving it for a while (I have been playing with Evolution for a while and SWMBO is now using it). Will see what happens overnight (other than duplicating mail space {:-(. Okay,

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Badger
Terry, One option might be for you to look at an IMAP server running on your local box, and have your mail tool point at that. I use Cyrus which works well for me. As it happens, I run Cyrus on a server in the UK, but running locally would just make it faster. All the best, Bruce --

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Terry Collins
James Gregory wrote: ...snip Okay, found out again why I didn't switch to Evolution. It eventually dies with the error message too many open files part way through importing the netscape messages. So it has a similar limitation to Mozilla. If you're dealing with a large number of

[SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-02 Thread Terry Collins
The subject is half the story. Basically I want a application that allows me to store, index and search email messages. Lets say something that would handle up to 5gb. Basically, my netscape messages are now 1.5Gb and neither Mozilla or Thunderbird can touch this lot. Sadly, they all barf on the