Re: SEARCH CHARSET, SORT (ARRIVAL), and THREAD REFERENCES support

On Friday 26 November 2004 11:51, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 07:45, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> > For the record: SEARCH CHARSET and search indexing is planned
> > for 1.3 through the use of swish++ and possibly iconv.
>
> Are you sure swish++ is the way to go? It seems like it is only
> really fast for english text, seems to have a concept of
> "ranking" that I'm not sure exists in imap, and uses lots of
> memory to search a lot of data.

Blehhh...

> I did a bit of hunting around, and found GNU mifluz, which
> supports limited memory searching, index file compression, and
> searches any text rather than just the english language. However,
> it doesn't appear to have been updated since 2001... Perhaps that
> is because it is so good no more work is necessary? ;)

...or because it's also blehhh...

How does http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix/ work?  I've heard from users 
that it's "astonishingly fast" but have no firsthand experience...

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