Re: [LUG] Star Office choked and won't restart

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> you clever chap

more, more... ;)

> Although I'm impressed with
> how fast a script grepping a directory of text files with assorted email
> addresses in them can be.

Hmm and I've noticed how the IMAP implementation shipped with
Redhat is so much slower than grepping the underlying files. 

Okay I guess if I use a format where messages are sequential in
a folder it has to split them up again, but it occurs to me that
you should be able to "exclude" a folder at grep like speeds, as
if it doesn't have the line beginning "Subject: Re: [LUG} Star"
it is unlikely to have a message with the corresponding subject.

Time to convert my folders to directories with one file per
message, and to start indexing my IMAP mail... More disk space
required first though.

I believe htdig indexes IMAP4 mail folders - anyone any
experience of doing this with any specific products. Disk space
won't be such a problem once I upgrade, although if I want all
six piece tablebase endings for the chess program... oh well.

Simon, with too much e-mail archived.

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