From: cesar mena <cesarmena@gmail.com>
To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: maildir and nmh/mh
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:28:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inj53dad.fsf@cmena.pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170706010111.GA22268@vortex.com>
Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> writes:
> Greetings. I've just installed notmuch and notmuch-mutt, obviously
> for use with mutt. Notmuch was initially setup pointing at my
> home Maildir directory, and setup ran fine. My testing within mutt using
> notmuch-mutt macros also worked OK. So far, nifty. Great work!
>
> Then (this has now been purged and reverted to Maildir only!) I tried
> linking into Maildir a pair of very old mh/nmh hierachies, which share
> many duplicated messages (but always with the same message numbers,
> I believe).
>
> I then let notmuch churn for several hours to index. This seemed
> to work.
>
> Not really though.
>
> Attempts to search with the same notmuch-mutt macro after the mh
> hierachies are added in are totally confused. There are many
> link errors during the serach ("file already exists" references mh mail
> message file numbers), and the resulting messages list in mutt is
> hopeless -- wrong messages, headers displayed don't match the
> actual message contents, etc.
>
> So, maildir - 1, mh - 0.
>
> As noted above, I purged and rebuilt just for Maildir -- and
> again that part is working fine.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> --Lauren--
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hello,
maybe this will help convert your mh hierarchy into maildir?
http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/mh2maildir.php
cheers,
-cm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-06 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-06 1:01 maildir and nmh/mh Lauren Weinstein
2017-07-06 13:28 ` cesar mena [this message]
2017-07-06 18:36 ` Lauren Weinstein
2017-07-06 18:47 ` David Bremner
2017-07-06 18:54 ` Lauren Weinstein
2017-07-06 19:03 ` David Bremner
2017-07-06 19:24 ` Lauren Weinstein
2017-07-06 21:23 ` David Bremner
2017-07-07 2:29 ` Lauren Weinstein
2017-07-06 14:18 ` David Bremner
2017-07-06 15:22 ` Lauren Weinstein
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