On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 2:00 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:35:00 -0500 > From: Paul Fox <p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us> > Message-ID: <20190121023500.21b935180...@grass.foxharp.boston.ma.us> > > | 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 > > > -- > nmh-workers > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers >
You might also like to look into notmuch if mairix is not to your liking. It also understands MH. -- Eduardo Alvarez ealva...@fastmail.com -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
