Re: Filename extension for nnml files?

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

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