Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:23:30 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 04:05:52PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, August 10, 2018 07:33:39 AM Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > 3. Indexed mail searching. Whatever works with your preferred
> > > > mail client. Have cron run a re-index every morning before you
> > > > wake up.
> > > 
> > > Care to expand on this one a bit? Not entirely sure what you mean here,
> > > and it's intriguing.
> > 
> > I'm not Dan Ritter, and he or some others may have responded, but, for me, I 
> > have used recol for that -- it creates an index of all the words in the emails 
> > and then allows full text searches.  Results can be displayed in various ways, 
> > including re-opening the email in an email client.
> 
> Debian package name is "recoll". Looks interesting.

+1

I, too, have been using recoll for full text indexing for years, for
text documents (plain, Open/LibreOffice, etc.) in general, and email in
particular. It's just a great program, and the author is accessible and
responds to bug reports, etc.

> -dsr-

Celejar