On Thursday Jan 16 2014, [email protected] wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday Jan 16 2014, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> If I set a ".noindex" file for mu, how do I search those mailboxes? Do I
>>> just need to explicitely enter them (via j o <maildir>) and then the search
>>> will work?
>>
>> No -- noindex does just that, it excludes the directory from being
>> indexed. If you want to that "sometimes", you can add/remove the
>> .noindex.
>>
>
> Can I still load the maildir in mu4e and browse and read messages, and
> use the emacs search function to search for words in the header even
> if not the body? Or is that mail "invisible" to mu4e since it is not
> indexed by mu?

It's totally invisible -- but what you can do is index it, then add the
.noindex (or even better, .noupdate) which should be fine for maildirs
that do not change (ie. archives).

Cheers,
Dirk.

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