Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Pranav K Tiwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> * Pranav K Tiwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > To allow desktop search programs go through nnml articles, I would > >> > like to give an extension like .xyz, and tell these programs to > >> > treat these files like email. > >> > >> I think this is the wrong approach. Instead of modifying the > >> filenames to suit the search program, find a way to make the search > >> program work properly. > >> > >> It's really not that difficult, see... > >> > >> $ find <nnmldir> -type f -regex '^.*[0-9]+$' > >> > > > The question is not about 'finding' these files, but about > > associating a 'type' with the file. > > But if you can find them, there's really no point in associating a > "type" to them. > > $ find <nnmldir> -type f -regex '^.*[0-9]+$' | \ > xargs some_app_needing_mail_files_as_input > > > Most indexing programs (google/yahoo/microsoft desktop search > > engines, X1) rely on file extensions to determine the filetype, > > and then index the contens of the file accordingly. It'll be good > > if they could deal with files with no extensions, but they don't > > (afaik). > > Yes they do. For example: > > <http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/> > > > So - with that in mind, the easiest way would be to change the way gnus > > nnml stores files, or write another backend that allows changing > > filenames. > > Maybe you should say what it is exactly that you want to do with your > nnml files. >
swish is fine - that's what I've used till now. I've been unable to use it to index all of my email periodically. I would like to say, here's the top directory under which all my nnml mail is, and this should be indexed periodically. But swish runs out of memory (even with -e option, on my 512Meg Win2k machine) in trying to index my mails (some, 35-40 nnml folders, each with 2000-5000 emails). So, the way I use swish is to have one index file per nnml folder, and I have modified the swish search function to search a list of index files. It works, but as you can see, it's not optimal. Maybe, my usage of swish is not correct - and if so, I'll be glad to be corrected. desktop search programs that I mentioned, all support a 'crawl' type of indexing where they can keep track of what has changed, and update their indices appropriately. And I have never had any trouble with memory with them. That's why I'll like to use any of those to index my mail, instead of swish that I'm using at present. -p _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
