1 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed)
2 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
3 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
4 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500
9 I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch. I'm
10 currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
11 Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).
13 notmuch indexed the messages without complaint, but my attempt at
14 searching bombed out. Running, for example:
16 notmuch search storage
18 Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:
21 /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
24 I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
25 with Maildir) or if something else is going on.
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31 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu>
32 Senior Technologist, Computing and Information Technology
33 Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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41 Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed unread)
42 Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
43 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
44 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:38 +0600
50 Twas brillig at 14:00:54 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars@seas.harvard.edu did
53 LK> Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:
57 /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
58 LK> Too many open files
60 See the patch just posted here.
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72 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed unread)
73 Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
74 To: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
75 Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
76 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500
81 > See the patch just posted here.
83 Is the list archived anywhere? The obvious archives
84 (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
85 think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
88 It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.
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104 Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
105 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
106 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
107 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:50:48 +0600
109 Twas brillig at 15:33:01 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars at seas.harvard.edu
112 LK> Is the list archived anywhere? The obvious archives
113 LK> (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
114 LK> think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
115 LK> discussion about it).
117 LK> It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.
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132 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
133 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
134 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
135 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:24:13 -0800
137 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at
138 seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
139 > > See the patch just posted here.
141 I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
142 private notmuch repository
144 git://keithp.com/git/notmuch
146 > Is the list archived anywhere?
148 Oops. Looks like Carl's mail server is broken. He's traveling to
149 Barcelona today and so it won't get fixed for a while.
151 Thanks to everyone for trying out notmuch!
154 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-18) (inbox signed unread)
155 Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
156 To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
157 Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
158 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:50:40 -0500
163 > I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
164 > private notmuch repository
166 The version of lib/messages.cc in your repo doesn't build because it's
167 missing "#include <stdint.h>" (for the uint32_t on line 466).
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181 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> (2009-11-18) (inbox unread)
182 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
183 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
184 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:08:10 -0800
186 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at
187 seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
188 > I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch. I'm
189 > currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
190 > Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).
194 I hadn't even seen that Keith's blog post had been picked up by lwn.net.
195 That's very interesting. So, thanks for coming and trying out notmuch.
198 > /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
199 > Too many open files
201 Sadly, the lwn article coincided with me having just introduced this
202 bug, and then getting on a Trans-Atlantic flight. So I fixed the bug
203 fairly quickly, but there was quite a bit of latency before I could push
204 the fix out. It should be fixed now.
206 > I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
207 > with Maildir) or if something else is going on.
209 Notmuch works just fine with maildir---it's one of the things that it