"Lars Kellogg-Stedman" <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox)
Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500

I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch.  I'm
currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).

notmuch indexed the messages without complaint, but my attempt at
searching bombed out. Running, for example:

  notmuch search storage

Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:

  Error opening
  /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
  Too many open files

I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
with Maildir) or if something else is going on.

Cheers,

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 "Mikhail Gusarov" <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:38 +0600


 Twas brillig at 14:00:54 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars at seas.harvard.edu did gyre and gimble:

  LK> Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:

  LK>   Error opening
  LK>   /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
  LK>   Too many open files

 See the patch just posted here.

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  "Lars Kellogg-Stedman" <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
  Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
  To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
  Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500

  > See the patch just posted here.

  Is the list archived anywhere?  The obvious archives
  (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
  think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
  discussion about it).

  It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.

  -- Lars

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   "Mikhail Gusarov" <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
   Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
   To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
   Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:50:48 +0600


   Twas brillig at 15:33:01 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars at seas.harvard.edu did gyre and gimble:

    LK> Is the list archived anywhere?  The obvious archives
    LK> (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
    LK> think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
    LK> discussion about it).

    LK> It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.

   Just has been pushed

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   "Keith Packard" <keithp@keithp.com> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
   Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
   To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
   Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:24:13 -0800

   On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
   > > See the patch just posted here.

   I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
   private notmuch repository

   git://keithp.com/git/notmuch

   > Is the list archived anywhere?

   Oops. Looks like Carl's mail server is broken. He's traveling to
   Barcelona today and so it won't get fixed for a while.

   Thanks to everyone for trying out notmuch!

   -keith

    "Lars Kellogg-Stedman" <lars@seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-18) (inbox unread)
    Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
    To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
    Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:50:40 -0500

    > I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
    > private notmuch repository

    The version of lib/messages.cc in your repo doesn't build because it's
    missing "#include <stdint.h>" (for the uint32_t on line 466).

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 "Carl Worth" <cworth@cworth.org> (2009-11-18) (inbox unread)
 Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
 To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:08:10 -0800

 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
 > I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch.  I'm
 > currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
 > Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).

 Welcome, Lars!

 I hadn't even seen that Keith's blog post had been picked up by lwn.net.
 That's very interesting. So, thanks for coming and trying out notmuch.

 >   Error opening
 >   /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
 >   Too many open files

 Sadly, the lwn article coincided with me having just introduced this
 bug, and then getting on a Trans-Atlantic flight. So I fixed the bug
 fairly quickly, but there was quite a bit of latency before I could push
 the fix out. It should be fixed now.

 > I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
 > with Maildir) or if something else is going on.

 Notmuch works just fine with maildir---it's one of the things that it
 likes the best.

 Happy hacking,

 -Carl