Martin Rubey <[email protected]> writes: Hi Martin,
> I would like to do a search-engine like search on a (local, gnus) mail > archive. I just tried (in the directory where my mail resides) > > M-x grep -i -nH -e "modular" $(grep -l "testInterpolant" *) > > but this seems very clumsy. Any better idea? Yes, use a search engine! Currently, there are two very good competitors in that field. The first is mairix [1] and the second is notmuch [2]. The former is integrated into Gnus via the nnmairix backend that's included in Gnus and recent emacsen. The latter is very new and has an emacs interface, too, but provides no Gnus backend. But it's not too difficult to jump from a message found by notmuch to jump to that message in Gnus. I have a function for that. Whichever you choose, both should be 1000 times faster than grepping all mail. Bye, Tassilo __________ [1] http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ [2] http://notmuchmail.org/ _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
