> > 2. Thunderbird keeps mail in ~/.thunderbird and beagle does not index > > hidden directories unless a backend explicitly states that there is > > data there. > > As far as you can change the place where Thunderbird keeps mail it > should look for the actual location of mails in the prefs.js file. This > was one of the previous problems of the Copernic indexer.
That is not exactly the problem. Parent post was merely highlighting that thunderbird mails need to be handled by a special backend and _cannot_ be handled by the usual file system backend. > > > 3. Having mail without context is not very useful; beagle wouldn't > > know how to open it. So, after searching, you'd have to open > > thunderbird manually and do that same search again. > So, there is any hope of a Thunderbird Backend after all? This is one major problem (to me it is _the_ major problem). Thunderbird keeps its mails in mbox format. Suppose beagle told you that the 3rd email in the the mbox file /home/.mozilla/thunder/bird/directory/some/folder/mbox/file is one of your search result. Nobody knows (or atleast I havent found) a way to open the 3rd email of that mbox file via thunderbird. (Evolution backend has a special way uri scheme by which you can open any email in an mbox file. KMail backend relies on the mbox:/ kio_slave to do the same.) Unless there is a way to open a search result, there isnt much sense in indexing them. - dBera _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
