[notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch
Tassilo Horn
tassilo at member.fsf.org
Sun Nov 22 13:00:58 PST 2009
Jed Brown <jed at 59A2.org> writes:
Hi Jed,
>> - 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).
Brilliant idea. :-)
Ok, now it's indexing my 63000 mails. 10 minutes to go.
Bye,
Tassilo
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