On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 07:10:12PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:50:13PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > On 07Apr16 19:53 +0200, Andreas wrote: > > > Am 07.04.2016 um 01:19 schrieb Cameron Simpson: > > ... > > By now I cannot imagine any solution which is more flexible (for me). > > Comments welcome! > I do basically the same, with some scripts to add Xlabels to > individual messages, instead of saving them in different > mailboxes/maildirs. > > > Me too and while it does find the message it does not tell me /where/ it > > > is. How do you do this? > > > > I do not precisely know about notmuch, but the indexers I know about > > they create links to the original mail in a temporary maildir folder. At > > least follow those links. > > Actually, to find the location of a mail file grepmail is a nice tool, > > which I used long time ago. > > I use maidir-utils. mu find can show you the actual location of a > message if you use the option --fields "... l" as in > > mu find from:somefriend tag:somelabel --fields "d f s l" > > which prints date, from, subject and location for each matching message.
Back then I compared mairix with notmuch and selected the latter for reasons I cannot recall any more. As stated in another post mairix would already return the location in the header. I am going to reevaluate my decision taking maildir-utils into account as a third possibilty. > Regards, > Luis Regards Andreas
