On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 12:40:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So here's one thing that MacOS is very good at: text searches. I have to > archive old mails in off-line tbz2 to retain some sanity, my colleagues on > Macs don't. Their mail store goes somewhere (we don't know where, not having > looked much) and 60,000 mails from 2 years doesn't slow things down. >
Sorry, forgot to mention that using mairix for searching local mail via offlineimap is *very* fast and quite accurate so far here, though there may be issues I haven't seen yet as it's only been a week or so. Somewhere I read that mairix chokes on utf-8, but so far no problem here.. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤