On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:10:22PM -0400, Tim Gray thus spake:
On May 08, 2011 at 10:47 PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:$ time mairix -v -pI bet that was my problem. I don't think I ever used -p, so there were a lot of dead messages floating around in my db. The times I'm getting now are pretty good. Notmuch seems to be faster, but the times are all low enough that I don't have a problem with any of them. mairix -v -p ------------ real 0m17.682s user 0m4.911s sys 0m8.524s notmuch new ----------- real 0m5.152s user 0m0.067s sys 0m0.261s Searches for the two showed a similar gap. Again, neither was slow enough for me to lose any sleep over. mairix: 0m3.044s notmuch: 0m0.410s This is an interesting discussion though. I might play around with mairix a bit more again. I still see mu and notmuch having a major advantage of being built on proper database tools. I get a lot of errors about messages not being indexed by mairix, and that whole recommended dance of removing the lock file before a search, etc. is annoying as well. Furthermore, the thing that excites me about notmuch that the others don't have is the fact that it's built as a library. An enterprising developer could integrate it into a mail client (other than the emacs thing they have going on) and it would be pretty great in my mind. Remember, notmuch isn't just an indexing tool - it also lets you tag messages and search on tags, etc.
Does anyone use notmuch for FreeBSD? If so I have created a port, and would like to try it out, but I don't have my mail locally sync'd, yet to verify if this actually works. Anyone willing to try out the attached shell archive? Just run /bin/sh against the attachment, then: cd notmuch; make install (as root, or use sudo) Thanks, Jason
# This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # notmuch/ # notmuch/Makefile # notmuch/pkg-descr # notmuch/distinfo # echo c - notmuch/ mkdir -p notmuch/ > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - notmuch/Makefile sed 's/^X//' >notmuch/Makefile << 'daed98e951f4e6015a65d45ec4b2a91d' X# New ports collection makefile for: muttils X# Date created: April 2 2011 X# Whom: Jason Helfman <jhelf...@experts-exchange.com> X# X# $FreeBSD$ X# X XPORTNAME= notmuch XPORTVERSION= 0.5 XCATEGORIES= mail python XMASTER_SITES= http://notmuchmail.org/releases/ X XMAINTAINER= jhelf...@experts-exchange.com XCOMMENT= Mail indexing tool X XLIB_DEPENDS= gmime-2.4:${PORTSDIR}/mail/gmime24 \ X talloc.2:${PORTSDIR}/devel/talloc XBUILD_DEPENDS+= xapian-config:${PORTSDIR}/databases/xapian-core XRUN_DEPENDS+= xapian-config:${PORTSDIR}/databases/xapian-core X XPLIST_FILES= bin/notmuch \ X man/man1/notmuch.1.gz XUSE_GMAKE= yes X Xdo-install: X ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/notmuch ${PREFIX}/bin X ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/notmuch.1.gz ${PREFIX}/man/man1 X X.include <bsd.port.mk> daed98e951f4e6015a65d45ec4b2a91d echo x - notmuch/pkg-descr sed 's/^X//' >notmuch/pkg-descr << '96faee797c242a96d3f25e49bbbd52d1' XNotmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching, reading, Xand tagging large collections of email messages. X XWWW: http://notmuchmail.org 96faee797c242a96d3f25e49bbbd52d1 echo x - notmuch/distinfo sed 's/^X//' >notmuch/distinfo << '38ecdd5c0c83491813eed1b00316c9dd' XSHA256 (notmuch-0.5.tar.gz) = c7eeb95c89c5b9cb22cc0b90abce5f923c20c982d607bf32829c989e905ff1a9 XSIZE (notmuch-0.5.tar.gz) = 340156 38ecdd5c0c83491813eed1b00316c9dd exit
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