From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14468 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:33:22 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293763214 20990 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2010 02:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:40:14 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 03:40:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYUuX-0000SU-Fs for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYUuW-0005Zr-JR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:40:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1293762803 4109 85.183.18.158 (31 Dec 2010 02:33:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85203 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14468 Archived-At: prad writes: > our imap server stores mail in maildir. > i get them through claws-mail and save them locally as mh (because > that's what claws does). > however, i understand that with gnus i have a choice. > > is maildir preferable to mh as far as indexers are concerned? > does gnus prefer working with maildir as well? (i recall reading that > nnml is faster than nnmh though i don't know if that has anything to do > with maildir). > > 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. Move them all into the imap server (dovecot for example). You could do that with Gnus! It does the indexing for you with fts_squat I think it is and nnir. I dont know the details, I just know it works well. Certainly less hassle than Mairix. How the imap server stores it should be immaterial to you I think. (Dovecot can and does store it as maildir but I cant comment on the advisability of accessing the dovecot maildir directly): then simply configure an IMAP connection to local host and/or remote imap host.