Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9226C431FBC for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:01:02 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lqFK9ZIBY0+G for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) X-Greylist: delayed 2171 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:01:01 PST Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA832431FAE for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D13C11FD; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:01:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:01:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=a8G8NOOIT1vqR/1ZwxHL3R4WvKs=; b=AkWsM250QdrKftIa5BIvOL5a08wj2gWqAmcabpMcWUz2p0/J8s6LFLrICPRD5eRNplkBQNxmOMVtr1EYUPW11N4ZA3dLhpkrwNgxjNiwWDyuVXN9s4kMrCnj3bSoueyvhWEPVbpJb/lpmSYKL9Yic81aRvH91Ltt2pjSDWKhlqI= X-Sasl-enc: QrcJhOzXo4jhRNXYZ3cj7fK2Cov9AvuWaYS+a+yXUypS 1258923660 Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF3BEC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.59.236]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 47F44124ED; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:00:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tassilo Horn To: Jed Brown References: <877hti71f4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <874oomb81h.fsf@59A2.org> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:00:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <874oomb81h.fsf@59A2.org> (Jed Brown's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:48:10 +0100") Message-ID: <873a466zqt.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:01:02 -0000 Jed Brown 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