Re: [nmh-workers] archival and searching of nmh folders

[Eduardo Alvarez]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 2:00 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:35:00 -0500
>     From:        Paul Fox <address@hidden>
>     Message-ID:  <address@hidden>
> 
>   | you're looking for "mairix".  i install it via debian/ubuntu package,
>   | but google will find you the sources quickly.  it's fantastic.
> 
> It is available in pkgsrc too (from NetBSD, though it also runs on
> lots of other systems) so I thought I would give it a try.
> 
> Easy to build and install, not difficult to configure, but after that,
> a bit of a nightmare...
> 
> While it supposedly understands mh format, it doesn't understand
> mh drafts (with the ----- separator between header and body, rather
> than the blank line) and complains about all of those.
> 
> It also complains about stuff it shouldn't really be looking at at all,
> if I read its doc correctly, like (non text attachmants encoded in
> formats it doesn't understand, like x-uuencode ... I have lots of very
> very old messages - my mh directory dwarfs the one mentioned
> in the question) and has not real idea (it seems) what to do with
> filenames for attachments which are not ascii (or something, I have
> lots of those as well.)
> 
> But the killer is that eventually the indexing operation simply dumped core.
> 
> kre
> 
> 
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You might also like to look into notmuch if mairix is not to your liking. It 
also understands MH.

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  Eduardo Alvarez
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