Bug 115368

Summary:	beagle does not usefully index "normal" mbox type mailfolders
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Marcus Meissner <meissner>
Component:	Mono	Assignee:	Joe Shaw <joeshaw>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4 Plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Marcus Meissner 2005-09-06 08:55:11 UTC

beagle in 10.0 beta4 does not index "normal" mbox type mailfolders 
to a useful degree. 
 
It looks into the textfiles, but i don't really need the 20MB mailfolder in 
the texteditor, I just want to see the mails I searched for...

Comment 1 Joe Shaw 2005-09-14 18:34:27 UTC

Beagle doesn't support random mbox files today.  There are a number of reasons:

(1) There's no standard mime type for mbox files, so they're always reported as
text/plain.  This is something that could be fixed in gnome-vfs, so a bug should
probably be filed against that in bugzilla.gnome.org.  (FWIW, neither apache nor
KDE have mime types for them either)

(2) There's no standard way to open these in different mail apps.  A URI scheme
would have to be invented to do this, like file:///path/to/mbox?offset=44949 and
all the mail apps would need to know what this means.

(3) Beagle's mail filter doesn't directly filter mbox right now.

We can support Evolution mboxes because problems 1 and 2 go away, and our
special Evolution backend more or less deals with the mails individually, so our
maildir filter handles them.

This isn't a SUSE-specific bug, so I don't want to keep it open here.  If you
want, you can file this as an enhancement bug in the official beagle bugzilla at
bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:33:07 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:43 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:40:59 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:52:39 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(