I've been using a dovecot IMAP server on localhost as my local mail
store (to have it in standard Maildir format and accessible by any
client). I also want to make it searchable in Spotlight.
Ideally this could be done by appending '.eml' to every mail file so
that they get picked up by Apple's mail importer; unfortunately this is
ruled out by dovecot's existing scheme to name emails. The workaround I
found is the Mew importer (http://www.mew.org/en/feature/spotlight.html)
which can work based on Mac file type. For this I periodically set all
messages' HFS file type with this script:
import os, fnmatch
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/Volumes/Home/FZ/Mail'):
for filename in files:
if not fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, 'dovecot*'):
filepath = os.path.join(root, filename)
os.system('/usr/bin/SetFile -t MewX \"' + filepath + '\"')
This works, but is very slow with 20,000+ system calls per run. Hence my
questions:
1) Is there a more efficient way to set file type? I tried using library
functions in Carbon.File.FSSpec instead, but found that they no longer
work (http://bugs.python.org/issue7807).
2) Or is something else (the 'uti'?) I could set so that the mails
actually get indexed by Apple's mail importer? Following is some
possibly relevant output of `locate lsregister` -dump.
Thanks,
Francois Z.
--------------------------------------------------------
type id: 20368
uti: com.apple.mail.email
description: Email Message
flags: exported active apple-internal trusted
icon: Contents/Resources/document.icns
conforms to: public.data, public.email-message
tags: .eml, message/rfc822
--------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
type id: 21916
uti: org.mew.mew
description: Mew message text
flags: exported active trusted
icon:
delegate: Spotlight/MewImporter.mdimporter/
conforms to: public.message, public.data, public.content
tags: .mew, 'MewX'
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