mairix

I use recoll[1] as my main homedir index/search tool. It supports many document formats and digs recursively into archives. It has a no-nonsense GUI, and a simple CLI interface. The search syntax is easy and flexible, allowing searches by many kinds of metadata, in addition to simple full-text search. It's slow with my collection of ~2.8 million files and the index on spinning rust, but it's thorough and reliable. For email, I store everything in mboxes, and index/search with Mairix[2]. It's wickedly fast and the search capabilities make gmail blush. I use a little script to search: if mairix -o $$ $*; then mutt -e 'set quit=yes' -f ~/Mail/$$ fi rm ~/Mail/$$ It's very common that I want to find an email from sometime in the last month, so my most common search is something like: search d:1m- alice And I'll have an in

I had a very quick look at the mairix repo on GitHub, and I'm not sure what to make of at least one pull request (about large mailboxes) that has no comments on it for a few years. Though it's an old project, I just wanted to confirm that it's still good enough to use without too many issues and also check if you're using the main one [1] or any of the other forks. [2] [1]: https://github.com/rc0/mairix/ [2]: https://github.com/rc0/mairix/network