Mail archive indexing [was: [ILUG] Sync-ing kmail on desktop and laptop]

[Lars Hecking]

Brian Foster writes:
>   | From: Paolo Marchiori <paolo at marchiori.net>
>   | Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:48:06 +0200
>   |[ ... ]
>   | By the way, I have all my archives since 1998 and I would like
>   | to index them in a way that access to them through mutt would
>   | not result in being a PITA.
>   | Yes, I tried switching to a "more modern" (read: with GUI)
>   | mailreader but I'm so used to mutt [ ... ] that switching
>   | resulted exactly in the PITA I'm trying to avoid.
 
 Yeah, GUI mailers suck big time. The worst aspect is being forced to
 take the hands off the keyboard for any actions. mutt is much quicker
 to use, and allows me to deal with large amounts of mail efficiently.

 For indexing, try mairix.