Re: maildir and nmh/mh

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

I've got "alot" working well enough for my purposes now ("good enough
for jazz!"). Thanks all!

L



On 07/06 11:54, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
> 
> I'll have to see what I can dig out, but it's not immediately clear
> that I can separate out individual folders that will trigger the problems.
> 
> But this does suggest another possibility. Assuming notmuch is
> actually accurately indexing the two massive mh hierarchies, is there
> some other simple front end I could use for the (occasional) searches
> I'd like to do on the mh mail archive? Mutt is working fine for the
> more recent maildir messages. If I need to keep the mh messages
> separate (e.g., under some other username and a separate notmuch db)
> and use a different front end to search and view them, that will work.
> I won't need this every day! In fact, keeping the mh messages separate
> from the maildir messages is probably good for other reasons. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/06 15:47, David Bremner wrote:
> > Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> writes:
> > 
> > > After fixing the find syntax I got mh2maildir working. However, it does not
> > > appear practical in my situation, since I'm dealing with more than 25 years of archived
> > > mh messages! The conversion would take ages with too many manual exceptions.
> > > So unless there's some way to correctly index these natively with notmuch, I guess
> > > this is a dead end. But thanks.
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I suspect the problem is not with notmuch proper
> > but with the notmuch-mutt script.  Unfortunatately zack (in copy) is
> > really the only one who knows very much about the script.  If you could
> > make a small tar ball of an MH directory that causes problems for
> > notmuch-mutt, zack could probably be tricked into looking at it.
> > 
> > d
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