[notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch

[Jed Brown]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:47 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo at 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