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 9393D431FB6 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:00:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] 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 aAYkeutjV3tg for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:00:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: delayed 901 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:00:13 PDT Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C882B431FB5 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1W3I-0001No-BV for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:45:08 +0100 Received: from c-71-237-233-41.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([71.237.233.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:45:08 +0100 Received: from mueen by c-71-237-233-41.hsd1.or.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:45:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org From: Mueen Nawaz Subject: Questions about importing mail (mbox) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:30:52 -0700 Message-ID: <87bp15m9oz.fsf@fester.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-233-41.hsd1.or.comcast.net Cancel-Lock: sha1:1PEphzOqoog0ezMu9/zTfuEPOvw= 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: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:00:14 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to experiment with notmuch. As I understand it, notmuch does not handle mbox for input. The problem is that all my mail is currently in mbox format. So I first tried converting mbox to maildir using mb2md. It didn't do a good job. When I subsequently tried importing to notmuch, notmuch complained about lots of non-mail files - I confirmed that indeed mb2md had botched converting those emails. So then I tried to convert to mh format using Sylpheed. This seemed to go well, but then when importing to notmuch, it complained again for about 20 emails, and a manual check confirmed that some messages did not get converted properly to mh (they don't show up in Sylpheed). And then I noticed another discrepancy. mutt shows that I started with 44473 messages in mbox. When I imported into Sylpheed, it showed 44482 messages (no idea where the extra 9 came from). However, notmuch is reporting that it processed 44482 files, but that it added 35602 messages. Why only 35602 (it complained for only about 20 messages)? A search confirmed that some messages that show up in both mutt (in mbox) and Sylpheed (in mh format) were not indexed. So I want to know: When you guys switched to notmuch, how did you ensure you did not miss any emails. I really, really, really don't want to lose any emails in this process! Thanks.