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Re: mairix patches; mairix difference vs notmuch?
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Michael Richardson |
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Re: mairix patches; mairix difference vs notmuch? |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:53:01 -0500 |
Conrad Hughes <address@hidden> wrote:
> In case it's of interest to anyone here, I recently got around to trying
> mairix for indexing my MH mail and quite liked it. Some niggles annoyed
> me though so I've a fork up on github which:
Thank you.
I compiled and installed it.
> I'm curious whether anyone has a strong preference for notmuch and if
> so, why. notmuch looks as if it might have the superior search indexer,
> but its lack of support for mbox/MMDF was a killer for me as I regularly
> throw old mail into .mmdf.xz, and even giving it a cursory try its
> search results on the command line seemed to be completely unusable.
I haven't tried it.
My mairixrc:
base=/home/mcr/Mail
mh=sandelman/...
database=/home/mcr/Mail/database
mfolder=/home/mcr/Mail/mfolder
mformat=mh
I didn't figure out how to tell it to index all the folders in ~/Mail.
Maybe "mh=..." would work, not sure.
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