Re: GUI Email program

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Timmy Douglas <tdouglas@home.com> writes:

> i think a better solution would be:
> 
>   - use the debian web site to search them
>   - tell procmail to put them in another directory mutt doesn't read
> and use grep to search the message files.

Not really.  The Debian website doesn't index all the mail I get, and
grep is a pain for checking whether multiple words are in the same
file, but on different lines.  (Or in the same message, where there
are multiple messages in a file.)

freewais is great, because it can index my mail, howtos, man pages,
etc and I can search for one thing and check where it comes up among
all those sources.  It does relevance calculations and uses soundex,
so I can misspell something and still get meaningful output.

(As for putting them where mutt can't find them, I don't know what
problems mutt has on large folders, so I can't address it.  I put my
archives where Gnus can find them (because it's been known to be
useful) but where I don't read them all the time.

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