From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0DC431FB6 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:33:13 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.799 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.799 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LdtUaDr5w4yC for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65EED431FAE for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id hm6so262226wib.2 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:33:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:from:user-agent :to:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:date; bh=+LeS4IWzsnz9UIZLU1WM9NtWkOed7+L07xZm1rHpjNQ=; b=VGhxTGfNG9fqhbioFVYIMrGyoLMFCfTTGgozCo8X5cCofmtHjWW7ngWdnpd633pO5P f2gziKzYMvESCSUjDtrTWk3kXtN64GnvLUmoTnlFgVIpdozUL01CMt1k8iW7Tf45SyQy maSgbyZixAxpzJPRHYxVoeRIKpndY4QTAq1UO3YLBlrre53fjQDH+xH7KevuWTGAauLP r5hl+dGPS8qv9kexduc+QX8spPAVmr0Lm/cDIkV+Y82wPn2niidgpp6k10Y0of2p83/W 1RgDYaLBRPgoR4wEVnLxL/wMvqfhI2hs9sTC6scurdTG89Ts2Blpedn6kIG54Ahltfit CCvQ== Received: by 10.180.7.194 with SMTP id l2mr1579333wia.0.1352453589773; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dhcp-91-036.inf.ed.ac.uk. [129.215.91.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s12sm1332729wik.11.2012.11.09.01.33.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:33:08 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Patrick Totzke User-Agent: alot/0.3.3+ To: Ondrej Jombik , notmuch@notmuchmail.org References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20121109093437.4382.75139@megatron> Subject: Re: Notmuch indexing takes too long Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:34:37 +0000 X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:33:13 -0000 Hi Ondrej, Quoting Ondrej Jombik (2012-11-09 02:58:09) > I am trying to move from mairix to some better solution. mairix has been > working really well for me, but it had some limitations. > = > I decided to give a try to notmuch, but I has been suprised with > estimated indexing time: > = > Processed 4157 of 822462 files (10h 3m 42s remaining). > = > At the beggining when there was 11 hours estimate I simply thought that > those numbers are wrong. But they are not. This is really going to take > that long. I could not believe that you all wait that long to index your > maildirs:) > = > Also if I understand correctly the concept, whenever I want to > regenerate database, I have to move old away and create new one, > correct? mairix worked that way that you run it and it updated its own > database. Is it possible with notmuch as well? I simply do not want to > wait 10+ hours for every database regeneration, thought I am willing to > wait that long for initial indexing. Notmuch does incremental idnex updates once the initial index is build. The initial indexing takes a while, depending on the number of mails you ha= ve but 10 *hours* seems a little off. For me its ~5mins on the hdd and <2 on a= ssd. > My last question is related to notmuch and Alpine. Alpine is > a IMAP/Maildir e-mail client based on old PINE. I get used to that so > much that I cannot move away (to Mutt, for example). Is there anyone who > uses notmuch with Alpine and created some scripts and/or key-bindings? You might want to have a look at notmuchfs: https://github.com/tsto/notmuch= fs Also, there are a few other MUAs based on notmuch: Check out http://notmuchmail.org/frontends/ Have fun, /p