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Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox

by antoaravinth on 12/18/17, 10:35 AM with 20 comments

• by sailfast on 12/18/17, 3:40 PM

  This is a great "get to know ES" project use case for elasticsearch! Frees you a bit from having to use Google search while also teaching you how to use queries / aggregations. Awesome work. Will give this a shot later.

  Thanks for putting this together.

• by gh02t on 12/18/17, 4:22 PM

  Worth noting that if you like the idea of indexing your mail, there's also Notmuch. It's a dedicated email search and indexing tool and is very nice when paired with something like OfflineIMAP to sync messages.

  https://notmuchmail.org

• by Cyberdog on 12/18/17, 5:54 PM

  > First, go here and download your Gmail mailbox…

  > The downloaded archive is in the mbox format

  So really, these instructions are for indexing any mbox-formatted mailbox.

• by buzzdenver on 12/19/17, 5:39 AM

  What is that http://ohardt.us/download-gmail-mailbox URL where you're supposed to download your email ? Looks fishy, though the hostname doesn't even resolve so not sure what's going on.

• by est on 12/19/17, 2:02 AM

  > Prerequisites: Set up Elasticsearch

  More like first get yourself a host with at least 16gigs of RAM first.

• by jaydestro on 12/18/17, 9:25 PM

  this is like using a jackhammer to nail in a pin isn't it? what's the benefit other than a faster search?