On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:04 +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > So far, I have been using pan. > > However, it tends to become painfully slow when the groups contain > more > than 30.000 messages; exponentially slow. > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer > the > archive of gmane.org, which as of now contains more than 200.000 > posts. > With numbers like this, to search for a keyword in the subject or an > author's name, it can take literally minutes to sort through the posts > in > order to come up with the result. > > I have also briefly looked at Thunderbird and Sylpheed, but both seem > to > suffer from a similar problem. Neither seems to implement advanced > search > strategies like hashing and stuff. All seem to do pure text / string > searches. ('seem' == I didn't look at the code.) > > Now I'd really appreciate your recommendation for a method or > apparatus to > handle groups with large numbers of messages in a suitable and > reasonably > fast manner.
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