taniwha_nz

after getting angry with kmail performance (it's a great email client, but i have 10+years of email in it so it's slow) -- i decided i might do better keeping my email in a text-ey index thingie like lucence or solr Being a recent "i <3 erlang" convert, i was distracted by couchdb, which is a document orientated database built in erlang.

So, between avoiding doing timesheets, i've started up a ruby script.. I'm building this for me alone, though i will WTFPL anything if someone asks.

The script will read my ~brenda/.kde/..... kmail folders, whack a copy of my email into couch db, and then let me search it using the couchdb's own interface. This can be tidied up later. I'll probably wrap it all in a drupal module eventually.

This leads me to wonder why no-one did this already. Some dogpiling (my favourite seach engine) leads me to conclude a couchdb email client doesn't exist yet.

May i ought to make kmail use couchdb... oh well, one thing at a time.