Re: mairix patches; mairix difference vs notmuch?

Michael> I didn't figure out how to tell it to index all the folders in
Michael> ~/Mail.  Maybe "mh=..." would work, not sure.

I wrote a nightly (ana)cron job to do that (attached).  It looks for any
MMDF files on my machine, and also adds all directories in my MH tree
(except "s", which is where I put search results).  Might be overkill,
but could give some ideas.

As is, if the cron script is installed in

  /some/path/lib/update_mairix_rc_and_db

.. it'll expect another file called /some/path/etc/mairix-do_not_index
which lists any MMDF files I don't want indexed.

I've also aliased 'mx' to

  'mairix \!* && scan +s'

.. can't think of any situation where I wouldn't want to see the search
results immediately.

Conrad

#!/bin/sh -e

# Update my mairixrc and run mairix.

rc=$HOME/.mairixrc
newrc="$rc.new"
mhpath=`/usr/bin/mh/mhpath +`
self=$(readlink -f "$0")
mydir=$(dirname "$self")

cd $mhpath
folders=`find * -type d | grep -v '^s$' | sort | tr '\012' : | \
    sed 's/:$//'`

cat > "$newrc" <<EOF
# DO NOT EDIT!!
#
# Machine generated by
#   $self

base=$mhpath
mh=$folders
mfolder=s
mformat=mh
database=$HOME/.shared/var/lib/mairix/mail_index.db
sort=date+
EOF

filter="$mydir/../etc/mairix-do_not_index"
locate .mmdf | egrep '\.mmdf(|\.bz2|\.gz|\.xz)$' | \
    if [ -f "$filter" ]
    then
      grep --invert-match --file="$filter" | sort
    else
      sort
    fi | sed 's/^/mbox=/' >> "$newrc"

if [ -f "$rc" ]
then
  if cmp --silent "$rc" "$newrc"
  then
    rm "$newrc"
  else
    echo 'mairix configuration has changed!'
    diff "$rc" "$newrc" || true
    mv "$newrc" "$rc"
  fi
else
  mv "$newrc" "$rc"
fi

mairix --purge