Re: [nmh-workers] archival and searching of nmh folders

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:35:00 -0500
    From:        Paul Fox <address@hidden>
    Message-ID:  <address@hidden>

  | you're looking for "mairix".  i install it via debian/ubuntu package,
  | but google will find you the sources quickly.  it's fantastic.

It is available in pkgsrc too (from NetBSD, though it also runs on
lots of other systems) so I thought I would give it a try.

Easy to build and install, not difficult to configure, but after that,
a bit of a nightmare...

While it supposedly understands mh format, it doesn't understand
mh drafts (with the ----- separator between header and body, rather
than the blank line) and complains about all of those.

It also complains about stuff it shouldn't really be looking at at all,
if I read its doc correctly, like (non text attachmants encoded in
formats it doesn't understand, like x-uuencode ... I have lots of very
very old messages - my mh directory dwarfs the one mentioned
in the question) and has not real idea (it seems) what to do with
filenames for attachments which are not ascii (or something, I have
lots of those as well.)

But the killer is that eventually the indexing operation simply dumped core.

kre