maildir and nmh/mh

[Lauren Weinstein]

After fixing the find syntax I got mh2maildir working. However, it does not
appear practical in my situation, since I'm dealing with more than 25 years of archived
mh messages! The conversion would take ages with too many manual exceptions.
So unless there's some way to correctly index these natively with notmuch, I guess
this is a dead end. But thanks.

L

On 07/06 09:28, cesar mena wrote:
> 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.
> >