| Jeff Abrahamson on 8 Aug 2005 13:00:35 -0000 |
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:53:03AM -0500, Chris Cera wrote: > [32 lines, 192 words, 1457 characters] Top characters: eait_srn > > I'm just starting to play around with maildir and was hoping to > understand how people store and search email with maildir. I read the first line and thought, "Funny, Chris Cera is doing the same thing." Then I saw it was you. ;-) > With the mbox format, I bzip2 all my mails in an archive/ > directory. When I want to search my archives I use grepm, a > script that calls mutt with grepmail's results. Grepmail is able > to decompress the archive and return all the mail that matches > the search. Something like: > $ grepm foobar archive/2005*.default.mbox > > I would like to implement a similar scheme using maildir, only it > makes sense (I think) to use tar.bz2 here. I ran a quick test > that failed: > $ grepm cera Maildir.tar.bz2 > grepmail: "Maildir.tar.bz2" is not a mailbox, skipping > No matches. > > I could re-convert back to mbox for archives, and leave my system > as-is (hoping such a script already exists). I'm not sure what > advantages I get by storing the archives in maildir ... since I > think most advantages seem to occur in production, not offline. Other than using more inodes, is there a big difference in space used just bzipping individual mail files instead of putting in an mbox and bzipping that? -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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