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 CAE70431FB6 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:03:29 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled 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 l7aMERyWtJbt for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:03:29 -0800 (PST) X-Greylist: delayed 310 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:03:28 PST Received: from athena.platon.sk (athena.platon.sk [85.248.229.194]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E756E431FAE for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:03:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:58:09 +0100 (CET) From: Ondrej Jombik To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Notmuch indexing takes too long Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Organization: Platon Technologies s.r.o. -- http://platon.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:41:46 -0800 X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ondrej Jombik List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:03:30 -0000 I am trying to move from mairix to some better solution. mairix has been working really well for me, but it had some limitations. I decided to give a try to notmuch, but I has been suprised with estimated indexing time: Processed 4157 of 822462 files (10h 3m 42s remaining). At the beggining when there was 11 hours estimate I simply thought that those numbers are wrong. But they are not. This is really going to take that long. I could not believe that you all wait that long to index your maildirs:) Also if I understand correctly the concept, whenever I want to regenerate database, I have to move old away and create new one, correct? mairix worked that way that you run it and it updated its own database. Is it possible with notmuch as well? I simply do not want to wait 10+ hours for every database regeneration, thought I am willing to wait that long for initial indexing. My last question is related to notmuch and Alpine. Alpine is a IMAP/Maildir e-mail client based on old PINE. I get used to that so much that I cannot move away (to Mutt, for example). Is there anyone who uses notmuch with Alpine and created some scripts and/or key-bindings? Of course I am not using nano for editing. I use ViM for e-mail creation and answering. So maybe notmuch-vim is probably better option, I do not know. Thank you for any possible valuable answers and please Cc me in the answer as I am not in the list. Thank you Ondrej -- Ondrej JOMBIK Platon Technologies s.r.o., Hlavna 3, Sala SK-92701 +421 903 PLATON - info@platon.org - http://platon.org My current location: Phoenix, Arizona My current timezone: -0700 UTC (MST) (updated automatically)