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You should have a peek at what my former coworker William is doing with Heliotrope. Pretty nice email client that supports threading with incredibly fast searching. It's not exactly what you're looking for and it's still pretty raw, you have to be familiar with the command line, but it has a lot of potential. https://github.com/wmorgan/heliotrope

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I thought Heliotrope/turnsole weren't stable yet?

Personally, I've used his Sup client and it's excellent, searches are basically instantaneous.

I think you're right about the stability, but that's a better question for William to answer. Wasn't aware of Sup, I've only seen him using Turnsole (https://github.com/wmorgan/turnsole) which apparently is derived from Sup.

Both Heliotrope and Turnsole are derived from his work on Sup, from what I can tell.

His Rethinking Sup[1][2] blog posts were, as far as I can tell, the initial thought work that led to the creation of HT & TS.

Personally, I read them at the time with great expectations, and was a bit let down since it seemed to result in a email-specific system, whereas Sup-the-service was described as a generalist document system (RSS, notes, even IRC).

I'd try to contribute, but frankly I don't really want to delve into yet another language (Ruby) for now..

[1]: http://masanjin.net/blog/old25 [2]: http://masanjin.net/blog/old13

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