Re: [SAGE] Re: Taming the Unruly Inbox

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon S Allbery <" KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>> writes:

>> 2) I can envision the searches gagging on the amount of mail some of us 
>> deal with (VM used to get really slow when I had more than about 2000 
>> messages in my inbox, although that was back in 1999).  Time to go 

Brandon> It sounds a lot like DEC SRC's Pachyderm, which has since been spun off
Brandon> and gone commercial (http://www.lexicos.com); it uses the Altavista
Brandon> search engine, so has no trouble with large mailboxes.

I'm using GNU Emacs GNUS with nnml: mailboxes, which puts each message
in a separate file.  I glimpse my maildir each night (972 Meg of
80,000 old messages), and can invoke glimpse from within GNUS to pull
up a virtual group of matching messages.  The downside is that I can't
search anything that came in within the past 24 hours, but usually, I
know where those are.

It's not perfect, but pretty good and I didn't write any code. :)

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