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
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