Paul Fox writes: > >has anyone tried mairix, for indexing their mh folders? > http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/mairix/
I use it. I index via a cronjob early each morning. > >it's a full-text indexer, and search results are presented by >synthesizing a virtual "results" folder using symlinks. i really >like this idea, because it means that results folder will be useable >with pick, for instance, and any other mh tool. i'm definitely going >to try it... The only hitch is that it uses very large message numbers. Currently my 'vfolder' folder gives a scan listing like: ; scanvf 700 05/Feb <censored> 2228 M 02/Jul <censored> 2246 M 05/Jul <censored> 79223 C M 13/May <censored> ?4665 M 14/Oct <censored> ?2485 M 22/Aug <censored> ?6905 M 11/Aug <censored> ?7051 M 23/Feb <censored> ?8548 MR13/Oct <censored> ?8549 M 13/Oct <censored> ?8644 M 13/Oct <censored> ?8646 M 13/Oct <censored> ?8647 M 14/Oct <censored> Which is less than ideal, the actual files are: ; ls ~/Mail/vfolder/ 104665 146905 158548 158644 158647 2246 79223 122485 147051 158549 158646 2228 700 Some of my mail folders have lots of messages in them, hence I use a 5 digit message number display in scan output. But that's not big enough for mairix it would seem... I guess it needs a unique number for each message it has indexed, and I have too many messages indexed :) It's still very useful, much better than glimpse (which I used before I discovered mairix) due to it populating an mh folder. The other annoying thing is that starting a command with the letters "mai" means more typing than should be necessary when using a tab-completion supporting shell. But that's easily fixed via an alias (symlink, whatever). -- Sam Holden _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
