Re: my vs maildir

[prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>]

prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:

> this exercise is to establish the local storage format for emails over
> several years so they can be indexed for the purpose of search and retrieval.
thx brett, tassilo and richard.

i've been trying out various things all day and think i've found a
reasonable solution (even though i had a connection to the remote imap
server which worked well yesterday):

1. used clawsmail to turn 40000+ mh emails into mbox
2. used mb2md to make mbox into maildir
3. put the cur new tmp into ~/Mail/inbox
4. served that through dovecot

before #4, i first tried to use nnmaildir to go right into the Mail
directly and it was very slow. so the imap server must be doing all
sorts of stuff behind the scene since things are super quick now! i
don't quite understand this because i'd have though direct access would
be fast, but i guess it means gnus has to do all the work without
dovecot lending a helping hand?

the only minor problem i have is that things haven't quite come out
sorted by date so when i ask for say 99 items, i don't get the most
recent 99 items as i do with the newsgroups or a direct connection to my
imap server as i did yesterday. somehow, the dovecot on the remote
server presents things ordered by date. so i guess some more studying and
tweaking is necessary though presumably gnus can do this as well with
something like:

(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '((gnus-thread-sort-by-date)))


-- 
in friendship,
prad