maildir and nmh/mh

[Lauren Weinstein]

I'll have to see what I can dig out, but it's not immediately clear
that I can separate out individual folders that will trigger the problems.

But this does suggest another possibility. Assuming notmuch is
actually accurately indexing the two massive mh hierarchies, is there
some other simple front end I could use for the (occasional) searches
I'd like to do on the mh mail archive? Mutt is working fine for the
more recent maildir messages. If I need to keep the mh messages
separate (e.g., under some other username and a separate notmuch db)
and use a different front end to search and view them, that will work.
I won't need this every day! In fact, keeping the mh messages separate
from the maildir messages is probably good for other reasons. Thanks.



On 07/06 15:47, David Bremner wrote:
> Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> For what it's worth, I suspect the problem is not with notmuch proper
> but with the notmuch-mutt script.  Unfortunatately zack (in copy) is
> really the only one who knows very much about the script.  If you could
> make a small tar ball of an MH directory that causes problems for
> notmuch-mutt, zack could probably be tricked into looking at it.
> 
> d