This is a great "get to know ES" project use case for elasticsearch! Frees you a bit from having to use Google search while also teaching you how to use queries / aggregations. Awesome work. Will give this a shot later.
Worth noting that if you like the idea of indexing your mail, there's also Notmuch. It's a dedicated email search and indexing tool and is very nice when paired with something like OfflineIMAP to sync messages.
Similar concept and similar speed, but notmuch is a little more actively developed. I also find the notmuch command line interface a bit easier and the various tools built on top of it to be better. Alot, the terminal UI I mentioned in the parent comment, is almost exactly what I want in a mail program.
What I really want is: mutt's UI, but with a SQLite3/PostgreSQL backend, and mutt not to iterate a mailbox when opening it, and an async IMAP client that reconnects as needed.
Yes. I'm just adding to Cyberdog's comment that it's not immediately obvious from the title of the article that the instructions are for indexing a static file.
The title makes it sound like it's instructions to setup up an alternative API to Gmail search. I was thinking something like Algolia.
In a way, though the instructions specifically handle GMail labels which aren't present in other mbox files. But it's pretty general for any mbox email dump.
It's a teaching tool. The benefit is to show someone how to use ES for a real-word thing.
With that said, I suspect given tuning based on your search patterns and usage - you could get more accurate search results when you control the indices, stop words, etc.
What is that http://ohardt.us/download-gmail-mailbox URL where you're supposed to download your email ? Looks fishy, though the hostname doesn't even resolve so not sure what's going on.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 61.2 ms ] threadThanks for putting this together.
https://notmuchmail.org
* You want emacs - https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/
* You don't want emacs - https://github.com/pazz/alot (I use this one, it's very nice)
Also Mutt - https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-mutt/
- http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/mu4e
What I really want is: mutt's UI, but with a SQLite3/PostgreSQL backend, and mutt not to iterate a mailbox when opening it, and an async IMAP client that reconnects as needed.
> The downloaded archive is in the mbox format
So really, these instructions are for indexing any mbox-formatted mailbox.
The title makes it sound like it's instructions to setup up an alternative API to Gmail search. I was thinking something like Algolia.
It may not be what you expected, but this is wrong.
The instructions tell you how to download your Gmail emails to mbox format, so they are instructions on how to index your Gmail emails.
With that said, I suspect given tuning based on your search patterns and usage - you could get more accurate search results when you control the indices, stop words, etc.
More like first get yourself a host with at least 16gigs of RAM first.