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The "reading mail in emacs" option he didn't mention is notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/). It's a mail indexer with full-text search and a few front-ends, the most-widely used being for emacs. It's search is really fast, and it was fast enough to make me forget folders once and for all.

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I didn't mention because I have not tried yet, some people suggested it in Reddit. I'll try it some of these days, the problem is that configuring it in Mac OS will take me more time (probably!) than I have this week. But it is something I have in my list, thanks for reminding me of it ;)

For what it's worth, MacPorts has all the dependencies. Worked for me out of the box after doing:

  $ sudo port install valgrind gmime talloc xapian-core glib2

Thanks, I'll try it tomorrow then... It is well worth the try to get fast search

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