On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 2:00 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:35:00 -0500
From: Paul Fox <pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us>
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| you're looking for "mairix". i install it via debian/ubuntu package,
| but google will find you the sources quickly. it's fantastic.
It is available in pkgsrc too (from NetBSD, though it also runs on
lots of other systems) so I thought I would give it a try.
Easy to build and install, not difficult to configure, but after that,
a bit of a nightmare...
While it supposedly understands mh format, it doesn't understand
mh drafts (with the ----- separator between header and body, rather
than the blank line) and complains about all of those.
It also complains about stuff it shouldn't really be looking at at all,
if I read its doc correctly, like (non text attachmants encoded in
formats it doesn't understand, like x-uuencode ... I have lots of very
very old messages - my mh directory dwarfs the one mentioned
in the question) and has not real idea (it seems) what to do with
filenames for attachments which are not ascii (or something, I have
lots of those as well.)
But the killer is that eventually the indexing operation simply dumped core.
kre
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You might also like to look into notmuch if mairix is not to your liking. It
also understands MH.
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