{"id":864,"date":"2004-07-21T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=864"},"modified":"2004-07-21T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T19:19:11","slug":"apple-mail-and-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/apple-mail-and-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mail and Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/07\/spotlight_on_spotlight\">John Gruber<\/a> reports that Apple Mail in Tiger stores each POP message in its own file (&agrave; la Claris Emailer 1.0), rather than using one mbox file per mailbox. In previous versions of Mail, messages in mbox files were searchable using <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/UserExperience\/Reference\/SearchKit\/\">SearchKit<\/a>, but in Tiger the messages must be available to  Spotlight&mdash;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/tiger\/searchtechnology.html\">Spotlight<\/a> uses files as the unit of search. <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=2890\">Brent Simmons<\/a> wonders whether other developers will change how their applications store data, in order to make it available to Spotlight. I think that would be a shame. If Mail does in fact shift to using one file per message, it will no longer be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/9.01\/paradigm.shtml\">useful<\/a> to me.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber reports that Apple Mail in Tiger stores each POP message in its own file (&agrave; la Claris Emailer 1.0), rather than using one mbox file per mailbox. In previous versions of Mail, messages in mbox files were searchable using SearchKit, but in Tiger the messages must be available to Spotlight&mdash;and Spotlight uses files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}