maildir_indexer

Release 0.3 - 2007/05/19 - (c) Pedro Melo melo@simplicidade.org

maildir_indexer is a small Perl script that allows you to index full text a set of maildirs.

This was a quick hack and it shows.

You can both index and query the created indexes with the same tool. Run maildir_indexer without arguments to see the usage.

Uses KinoSearch and MIME-tools.

Download

The best, err, only way to install maildir_indexer for now is to download the source:

• using cogito/git:
  • http://code.simplicidade.org/git/trees/maildir_indexer.git
  • git://repo.or.cz/maildir_indexer.git
  • http://repo.or.cz/r/maildir_indexer.git
• tarball from http://code.simplicidade.org/projects/maildir_indexer/maildir_indexer-0.3.tar.gz.

If you just want to look at the code, use the gitweb interface at http://repo.or.cz/w/maildir_indexer.git. You can subscribe to a feed with the commits at http://repo.or.cz/w/maildir_indexer.git?a=atom.

Instalation

Install dependencies (KinoSearch and MIME::Parser) using cpan.

Then just copy maildir_indexer to somewhere safe.

Future

In order of priority, more or less:

• move to KinoSearch 0.20: this will allow us to move to Unicode;
• support multiple input charsets, converting them to Unicode;
• cleanup main Headers of each message (Subject, To, From, Cc's and Date) and index them;
• use MessageId as document ID in KinoSearch;
• See the new ranking stuff in KinoSearch 0.20 to index Dates: should allow us to query "Last week mail";
• See if you can ditch the DB_File stuff: use the index itself to see if a message was already indexed;
• repackage this as a CPAN package called App::Maildir::Indexer.

In my wildest dreams:

• implement POE::Component::Client::IMAP;
• re-write this to be a IMAP client, that indexes over IMAP;
• in the same POE process, glue a pretty Catalyst application;
• pack everything with PAR.

License

This software is distributed in the same terms as Perl.