Re: [Tracker] MH email files

[Eyal Oren <eyal oren deri org>]

On 11/29/06/11/06 19:19 +0100, Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 16:58 +0000, Eyal Oren a écrit :
> > On 11/29/06/11/06 13:44 -0300, A. C. Censi wrote:
> > >I use Syplheed-Claws as email client. Sylpheed stores files in MH mail format -
> > >text files with text email content, in folder structure, with numbers as
> > >filenames, without any extension in the file name.
> > >
> > >Normally those files are identified correctly as email files, for instance by
> > >ROX-Filer or Thunar file managers, and "obviously" by file. Tracker (and
> > >Nautilus, by the way) are misidentifying the files as normal text files.
> > and a bit related...I think I mentioned it earlier already. I use Maildir 
> > emails (in Mutt), and they're also detected as plain text files by tracker. 
> >
> > I thought Jamie answered earlier...Maildir (and MH I guess) is a future 
> > todo. Correct?
>
> In that order :
> 1/ MBox (Evo, KMail, Thunderbird)
> 2/ IMAP (Evo, then I hope the others)
> 3/ fun with Mutt and Sypleed (I did not install it to test it indeed)
ok, thanks for the update.
sounds great.

just FYI, you dont need to install mutt or sylpheed, you only need a 
maildir or mh compliant server such as postfix or courier. I can also 
provide with with dumps of some of my Maildir folders, let me know if 
there's more I can do to help (I program but not C ;-)

-eyal