At this point, we're achieving a result that is *very* close to
what sup does. The only difference is that we are still indexing
the "excerpts from message ..." line, and we are not yet indexing
references.
Most of this code is fairly clean and works well. One part is
fairly painful---namely extracting the body of an email message
from libgmime. Currently, I'm just extracting the offset to
the end of the headers, and then separately opening the message.
Surely there's a better way.
Anyway, with that the results are looking very similar to sup-sync
now, (as verified by xapian-dump). The only substantial difference
I'm seeing now is that sup does not seem to index quoted portions
of messages nor signatures. I'm not actually sure whether I want
to follow sup's lead in that or not.