Filename extension for nnml files?

Filename extension for nnml files?

[Norman Walsh]

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I've been using nnml for years. Now I'm using it on Mac and I realize
that if the files were named 'nnnnn.txt' instead of just 'nnnnn' that
they'd be "text files" and would get indexed by Spotlight. Really,
mail is about the only thing I'd ever want Spotlight to index anyway.

It looks like I could also fix this problem by telling the Mac that
files of type 'public.data' (which is what files named 'nnnnn' appear
to be) are mail. But since I don't know what else might turn up as
public.data, I'm a little reluctant to do that.

Thoughts?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Re: Filename extension for nnml files?

[David Engster]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> I've been using nnml for years. Now I'm using it on Mac and I realize
> that if the files were named 'nnnnn.txt' instead of just 'nnnnn' that
> they'd be "text files" and would get indexed by Spotlight. Really,
> mail is about the only thing I'd ever want Spotlight to index anyway.

There's no need to rename the files, since OS X also has the notion of a
file type, which is independent of the extension. You can set the type
on the command line using 'SetFile', which I think is part of the XCode
developer tools. Just do

SetFile -t TEXT <filename>

to set a file type to plain text. You can then import the file into
Spotlight by using 'mdimport' on the file.

But I also just found this here

http://www.yoshidam.net/diary/Spotlight/

which seems to be exactly what you want. Never tested this, though. I
use mairix. ;-)

-David

Re: Filename extension for nnml files?

[Andreas Seltenreich]

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Norman Walsh writes:

> I've been using nnml for years. Now I'm using it on Mac and I realize
> that if the files were named 'nnnnn.txt' instead of just 'nnnnn' that
> they'd be "text files" and would get indexed by Spotlight. Really,
> mail is about the only thing I'd ever want Spotlight to index anyway.
[...]
> Thoughts?

You could coerce nnml to generate .txt-Files by configuring it like
this:

(nnml "test"
      (nnml-get-new-mail nil)
      (nnml-directory "/tmp/nnmltest/")
      (nnml-use-compressed-files ".txt")
      (nnml-compressed-files-size-threshold 0))

It won't cause any actual compression since ".txt" doesn't trigger
Emacs' auto-compression-mode.

regards,
andreas

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