[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 221073] Re: Beagle does not index Thunderbird mails

[Ron_]

The Beagle community (including Novell) seems unable to offer any
further support.  Also, I found no evidence that Canonical has changed
its support for desktop search apps since introducing Ubuntu 10.04
yesterday.  So after reviewing all of the information I could find
comparing strengths and weaknesses, I shut down the Beagle daemon and
installed Recoll.

So far, I am very pleased.  Documentation is good.  Installation was a
snap.  Minor customization (e.g., setting a parm to enable Recoll to
work with the Firefox Beagle add-on) was easy.  The whole conversion was
very uneventful.  Creation of the initial index was reasonably fast
(under an hour for about 250,000 files.)  The GUI is clean and clear.
All of the stuff that Beagle caught was there.  And all of the stuff
that Beagle missed -- like Thunderbird message content -- showed up.

Compare Recoll news...

    * 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.04 is out. It fixes a nasty bug (broken stemming) in 1.13.02.
    * 2010-01-29 : the full Recoll source repository is now hosted on Bitbucket, along with a Wiki and an issues tracking system. Hopefully, this new channel for reporting bugs and make suggestions will increase the feedback rate...
    * 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.02 is out. It brings some nice improvements and new functions. Please try it and report any problems.
    * 2009-12-10 : 1.12.4 is out. It fixes a problem in the preview window search function (qt4 only).
    * 2008-05-22 : we now have a mailing list:
          o Subscription management
          o Archives

... to Beagle news:
21 Jan 2010      Beagle status: Beagle isn't in active development. It is getting some occasional maintenance done by Novell. 
26 Jan 2009      Beagle 0.3.9 released. 
15 July 2008      Beagle 0.3.8 released. 
7 Jun 2008      Added initial support for indexing removable medium. 
21 May 2008      Added read-only RDF overlay on Beagle index. This RDF store can handle RDF queries and supports different query formats like SPARQL, N3 etc. 
14 May 2008      Kio-beagle ported to KDE4. 

The future is Recoll.

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Beagle does not index Thunderbird mails
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Bug description:
Although I have the beagle-extension in Thunderbird installed, Beagle never indexes my emails. 

The output of beagle-info --index-info:

Name: Blam
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Pidgin
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: KNotes
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: KOrganizer
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Tomboy
Count: 27
Crawling: False

Name: EvolutionDataServer
Count: 767
Crawling: False

Name: Labyrinth
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: documentation
Count: 57534
Crawling: False

Name: KonqBookmark
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: EvolutionMail
Count: 66452
Crawling: False

Name: Thunderbird
Count: 32136
Crawling: False

Name: Liferea
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Empathy
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Opera
Count: 12
Crawling: False

Name: Kopete
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: IndexingService
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: NetworkServices
Count: -1
Crawling: False

Name: NautilusMetadata
Count: -1
Crawling: False

Name: KAddressBook
Count: 771
Crawling: False

Name: KonquerorHistory
Count: 2
Crawling: False

Name: manpages
Count: 4954
Crawling: False

Name: applications
Count: 677
Crawling: False

Name: KMail
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Akregator
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Konversation
Count: 0
Crawling: False

Name: Files
Count: 88444
Crawling: False