beagle & soc07 25 Jul 2007 11:42 pm
Backend is nearly complete
I’ve been working quite intense on the beagle backend the last two days and I come with good news: I’ve almost finished it 
As of today it indexes emails and RSS content (the indexed data is of course searchable). Extra data, i.e. mail body or RSS description, is indexed as well so it’s possible to query that data too if it’s available.
There’s still a few things to fix but most things are there. I’ve made some updates to the extension as well. Found a few bugs. Had to add a few new properties to the metafiles for instance. Everything will be released tomorrow as I’m a bit tired right now. But you should be able to search your Thunderbird data as of tomorrow
on 26 Jul 2007 at 1:12 am 1.Brandon said …
Great news, Pierre! I’ll look forward to testing the system.
In general, if I want to test without risking all my mail getting hosed, all I have to do is backup my .thunderbird folder, right? Disable any IMAP accounts too, I suppose, or I risk any induced errors getting synchronized with my mail server, no?
Am I too paranoid?
on 26 Jul 2007 at 10:56 am 2.Andreas said …
i’m looking forward to it too. it will be the only reason for me installing beagle again.
btw would it be possible to add which folders are remaining to be indexed and not only the count? maybe it could be reduced to the “next 10″ or so.
on 26 Jul 2007 at 9:14 pm 3.Pierre Östlund said …
Brandon:
Yes, if you want to backup everything before trying just copy the .thunderbird (or .mozilla-thunderbird on some systems) directory. I can’t imagine what could wrong using the extension though. It only walks through your content and adds some properties to folders and emails, only local changes too for that matter (nothing is transferred to remote servers, so you don’t have to worry about disabling IMAP or anything to protect from this). You should not have to worry about anything getting b0rked
Andreas:
I guess I could add remaining folders like you explain it, should not be very hard. Will work on that for the next release (the one after the release I make tonight).