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44 From: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>
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46 To: Ondrej Jombik <jombik@platon.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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50 Subject: Re: Notmuch indexing takes too long
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51 Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:34:37 +0000
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68 Quoting Ondrej Jombik (2012-11-09 02:58:09)
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69 > I am trying to move from mairix to some better solution. mairix has been
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70 > working really well for me, but it had some limitations.
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73 > I decided to give a try to notmuch, but I has been suprised with
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74 > estimated indexing time:
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77 > Processed 4157 of 822462 files (10h 3m 42s remaining).
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80 > At the beggining when there was 11 hours estimate I simply thought that
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81 > those numbers are wrong. But they are not. This is really going to take
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82 > that long. I could not believe that you all wait that long to index your
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86 > Also if I understand correctly the concept, whenever I want to
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87 > regenerate database, I have to move old away and create new one,
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88 > correct? mairix worked that way that you run it and it updated its own
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89 > database. Is it possible with notmuch as well? I simply do not want to
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90 > wait 10+ hours for every database regeneration, thought I am willing to
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91 > wait that long for initial indexing.
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93 Notmuch does incremental idnex updates once the initial index is build.
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94 The initial indexing takes a while, depending on the number of mails you ha=
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96 but 10 *hours* seems a little off. For me its ~5mins on the hdd and <2 on a=
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99 > My last question is related to notmuch and Alpine. Alpine is
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100 > a IMAP/Maildir e-mail client based on old PINE. I get used to that so
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101 > much that I cannot move away (to Mutt, for example). Is there anyone who
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102 > uses notmuch with Alpine and created some scripts and/or key-bindings?
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104 You might want to have a look at notmuchfs: https://github.com/tsto/notmuch=
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106 Also, there are a few other MUAs based on notmuch:
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107 Check out http://notmuchmail.org/frontends/
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