Re: mairix and symlinks
0n Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:22:10PM +0930, Ian Wat wrote:
>I've been using mairix to index and search my mail. I use Maildir so
>the match folder is populated with symlinks to the correct e-mail. The
>problem I've run into is that modifying a message in that match folder
>doesn't modify the real message. For example, deleting a message will
>just delete the symlink.
>
>It's possible to script mutt such that entering some keystroke will take
>me to the correct message in the correct folder. Would this be the best
>approach or am I missing something here?
I would actually recommend nmzmail rather than mairix.
nmzmail is a tool to use the namazu2 search engine from within the mutt
mail reader to search mail stored in maildir folders. Based on the
result of the namazu query, nmzmail generates a maildir folder
containing symbolic links to the mails matching the query. A simple
mutt
macro makes easy to use nmzmail from within mutt.
Features:
* fast mail searching even with large number of mails
* incremental index building
* rich query language including regular expressions
* (see the
namazu documentation)
* integrates nicely into mutt
* query history
WWW: http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#nmzmail
- aW