Re: mairix and symlinks
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:51:17AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> 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
of course, none of these features address the OP's original concern --
is there a way to get mutt to modify the original msgs instead of the
symlinks...
and I guess nmzmail has the additional issue of getting namazu to work
properly, which I've found to be a bit tiresome.
matt
>
>
> - aW
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