> I used to keep all my mail this way using MH; it worked well up to
> the point where directories got so full that directory operations
> were taking too long (I remember a nasty n^2 sort in the early days
> of linux). If Plan9's file handling is up to it, I'm in favour of
> this approach. Just remember that it has to work well with 10's of
> thousands of emails in a directory - search is making organization
> obsolete. Heck, some of us didn't manage organization before search
> made it obsolete.
for complex queries, grep's speed is very good; i keep lots of messages
around. regarding searching/organization, if google could integrate
their search engine with a scanner/paper shredder, i would start getting
organized tomorrow.
cpu% time mgrep plalonde MH
I used to keep all my mail this way using MH; it worked well up to
/mail/fs/mbox/1796
0.12u 1.19s 2.87r mgrep plalonde MH
cpu% cat /bin/mgrep
#! /bin/rc
if (test ($#* -lt 1) -o ($#* -gt 2)) {
echo 'usage: mgrep [from] regex'
exit
}
if (test ! -d /mail/fs/mbox) {
echo '/mail/fs/mbox does not exist'
exit
}
if (~ $#* 1) {
grep $1 /mail/fs/mbox/*/body
exit $?
}
for (i in `{grep $1 /mail/fs/mbox/*/from}) {
d=`{basename -d $i}
if (grep $2 $d/body) {
echo $d
}
}
