Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch

Subject: Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch

Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:00:58 +0100

To: Jed Brown

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Tassilo Horn

Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:

Hi Jed,

>>   - I run a local IMAP server (dovecot) and access it using Gnus
>>   - Dovecot stores its mails in /var/spool/mail/ in some one file per
>>     message format
>
> How about
>
> $ mkdir -p ~/mail/spool
> $ ln -s /var/spool/mail/$USER/{cur,new,tmp} ~/mail/spool
>
> and point notmuch at ~/mail (or specifically ~/mail/spool).

Brilliant idea.  :-)

Ok, now it's indexing my 63000 mails.  10 minutes to go.

Bye,
Tassilo

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