maildir and nmh/mh

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Lauren Weinstein <lauren at 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!
>
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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