maildir and nmh/mh

[Lauren Weinstein]

OK, it looks like using neomutt on a different machine would solve
the problem. It isn't immediately clear to me (after digging around
the docs for a bit) where the repo is that will install neomutt as
opposed to standard mutt, or how the neomutt .muttrc should be configured
to simply search and view messages from the notmuch db. Thanks.

L


On 07/06 16:03, David Bremner wrote:
> Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> There are a few possibilities (see [1] for a more complete list),
> depending on what sort of front end you are looking for.
> 
> - There's a command line interface accessible via "notmuch"
> 
> - There's an emacs interface (which is probably the most used by the
>   notmuch developers)
> 
> - There's alot, which is a curses based front end
> 
> - There's astroid which is a gtk based front end.
> 
> - There's the already mentioned neomutt (which might work somehow in a
>   secondary account, or something).
> 
> 
> [1]: https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/