Re: search: namazu, mairix, org

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:11:18 +0200,
David Maus wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:57:26 -0400,
> Matt Price wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > After a few months of really loving wanderlust I think I should
> > probably really set up some kind of indexed searching.  Though my
> > manual only mentions namazu as a search engine I think I've seen
> > somewhere that wl also supports mairix -- is that true?  And do people
> > have suggestions as to why one would use one or the other?  And
> > finally -- I should be able to find this in the archives but I'm very
> > tired -- do David M's recent improvements to the org-mode integration
> > code allow one to use either engine?
> 
> The improvements to Org allow searching for a message by its
> message-id using a WL search folder.  WL currently only supports
> searching with Namazu or grep.

Well, it supports the use of the server's search facilities, for IMAP
and NNTP at least.


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