From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B4A6DE27ED for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:30:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.007 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.007 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.005, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2wbUeRngfRYW for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neon.vortex.com (neon.vortex.com [172.2.229.55]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E85BD6DE2788 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by neon.vortex.com (neon.vortex.com [172.2.229.55]); Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:29:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:29:58 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein To: David Bremner Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Stefano Zacchiroli Subject: Re: maildir and nmh/mh Message-ID: <20170707022958.GA14649@vortex.com> References: <20170706010111.GA22268@vortex.com> <87inj53dad.fsf@cmena.pobox.com> <20170706183602.GA25389@vortex.com> <87y3s1qu6l.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> <20170706185448.GA25979@vortex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170706185448.GA25979@vortex.com> X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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, 07 Jul 2017 02:30:11 -0000 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 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch >