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From: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:48:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oomb81h.fsf@59A2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hti71f4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:47 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to try out notmuch.  My mail setup is as follows:
> 
>   - I run a local IMAP server (dovecot) and access it using Gnus
>   - Dovecot stores its mails in /var/spool/mail/ in some one file per
>     message format

How about

$ mkdir -p ~/mail/spool
$ ln -s /var/spool/mail/$USER/{cur,new,tmp} ~/mail/spool

and point notmuch at ~/mail (or specifically ~/mail/spool).


Jed

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-22 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-22 20:24 How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch Tassilo Horn
2009-11-22 20:48 ` Jed Brown [this message]
2009-11-22 21:00   ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-23  4:30 ` Carl Worth
2009-11-23  7:42   ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-26 20:53     ` Carl Worth

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