Re: How to search a recently read mail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Fri, Jul 20 2012, Julien Cubizolles wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 11 2012, F. Durand wrote:
>
>> You could consider using mairix for indexing and searching. A query like
>> "d:5d- bs:keyword" would create a group containing messages from the
>> past five days with "keyword" in the body or subject header.
>
> How does it compare with namazu ? I couldn't find a comparison of their
> features.

I used to use namazu, then switched to nnmairix. Unfortunately I
recently cleaned up my emacs/gnus init files, including a big block of
long-commented code (and expletive-littered notes to self) related to my
old namazu installation, so I can't really tell you why I switched. All
I can remember is that I was happier afterwards. I think it had
something to do with the fact that mairix is much more target to email,
and had more mail-specific features. Sorry…

One disadvantage of mairix is that it only seems to perform ascii
indexing, ie no Latin-1 or UTF-8 (is this right?). If you use other
languages often, it's something to take into consideration.

>> Nnmairix allows you to create persistent groups with a certain query. So
>> I've got a "recent" group where the query is something like "d:4d-"
>> (plus some exclusion of uninteresting messages). 
>
> Namazu can't do that, can it ?
>
> Julien.
>
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