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Re: [PLUG] grepmail + maildir
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Is anyone using beagle for this kind of thing?
I've been thinking about running it, but just not
gotten the thing fully installed yet.
Andy
Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:53:03AM -0500, Chris Cera wrote:
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>>I'm just starting to play around with maildir and was hoping to
>>understand how people store and search email with maildir.
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>I read the first line and thought, "Funny, Chris Cera is doing the
>same thing." Then I saw it was you. ;-)
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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?
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