Bugzilla – Bug 115368
beagle does not usefully index "normal" mbox type mailfolders
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:52:39 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...
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.
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
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 ;(