Re: indexing Maildir mails

[D Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

It seems that the directory structure for maildir is not standardised.
This page talks about two possible formats:
http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?action=browse&diff=2&id=MuttFaq/Maildir

Ubuntu seems to be coming up with yet another naming standard (more at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com//MailStorageStandardisation ). And to talk
about kmail, their structure is given in
http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?ExtendedMaildirFormat and it doesnt
seem they have any plans of changing it soon
(http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kmail-devel/2005-January/014614.html ).

However, all these are different conventions for directory structures.
I think it might still be possible to recusrively scan for cur/ new/
tmp/ directories in the maildir directory and find rfc822 files in
them. At least, that is what I think
http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ does.

I will see if I can recursively scan directories and pick up mail
files for indexing.

- Bera

> >     The changelog of beagle-0.12 says it can index maildir mails. Does
> > that mean mails in maildir format from any mail application ? I tried
> > to change local_path, imap_path etc. in  EvolutionMailQueryable to
> > point to a maildir directory I have but there was no response in the
> > debug output.
> 
> Filtering maildir mail is done via a filter on regular file indexing. If the
> file is identified to be message/rfc822 (you can check this with
> gnomevfs-info) it passed through the FilterMail filter and indexed.