Xapian discuss - Sep 2008 - mu-0.2, maildir indexer/searcher with xapian support

Hi all,

[ Hopefully announcements like this are appropriate here... ]

I've just released version 0.2 of my maildir scanner/search called
'mu':
http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
It it's written in C and a bit of C++, and released under the GPL.

Thanks for the help I got here, it was quite easy to integrate Xapian,
and it works really nice -- a high quality product. Great job! 

Mu uses Xapian for content searches (and SQLite for metadata search), so
you can do something like:

 $ mu-find f:john at test.com d:20060101-20061231 x:'banana OR pear OR
apple'
 
To find that mail that John sent you in 2006, about some
fruit. Everything after the 'x:' is a Xapian query, and it's
combined
with the SQLite query. You can get the results on the console, or as
symlinks to the messages, for integration with mutt and friends.

In a future version I will extend Xapian support, the first thing will
probably be a language detector so stemming will work.

Best wishes,
Dirk.


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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:34PM +0300, djcb wrote:
> [ Hopefully announcements like this are appropriate here... ]
In moderation, I don't have a problem with them.  I think it would get
out of hand if every release of every project using Xapian was announced
here, but initial or particularly notable releases are interesting to
hear about.
> Mu uses Xapian for content searches (and SQLite for metadata search), so
> you can do something like:
Why not just use Xapian for everything?  It seems you must be doing some
complicated post-processing (or using SVN trunk's Xapian::PostingSource)
currently...

Cheers,
    Olly