* Chinmaya Nagpal <[email protected]> [2021-08-20 23:20]: > Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes? > I don't really use notmuch for much other than message body searching so > I'm considering if I should get rid of it entirely.
If you don't know who is the correspondent and you wish to find message by body search then either you would use indexer like notmuch, and I am using "mu" indexer https://github.com/djcb/mu/ as I find it better; or maybe you could use simple `grep' to locate the message, which would be probably slower with larger number of Maildirs. In order to limit searches in bodies to specific conversant my Maildir setup is such that all emails related to specific email address are automatically saved to corresponding Maildir folder: ~/Maildir/[email protected] is Maildir directory containing all emails to and from [email protected] ~/Maildir/[email protected] is Maildir directory containing all emails to and from [email protected] That way if I wish to search with ~b narrowed and related to specific email address then the search goes much faster. Otherwise I have to use indexer to locate those messages which I do not know to which conversant they belong. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/
