On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:01:20PM +0200, Niels den Otter wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 April 2010, sigi wrote: > > I'm using archivemail to create archives of my mail-folders from > > time to time... if I need to search for old messages in my > > maildirs, I use mairix - but it can't index my *.gz-archives, > > right? > > > > Is there any tool out there, which can index and find my messages > > in this *.gz-files (which I'm able to use within mutt like > > mairix)? > > I don't use mairix for compressed folders myself, but > > http://wiki.mutt.org/?UserStory/SearchingMail > > mentions > > "[Mairix] is a program for indexing and searching email messages > stored in Maildir, MH or mbox folders. The mailboxes can also be in > gzip (version 0.17) or bzip2 (version 0.18) format, which makes it > great for archived mailboxes. (Check out [archivemail].)" > > Have you tried it?
Huh, that's odd. Then I did something wrong in my .mairixrc, I guess... Possibly it didn't function, because my archives aren't placed within my base-mailfolder. I'll give it a try again... Thanks for your fast reply! Regards, sigi
