searching across folders using mutt

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun May29'22 08:14:20PM, steve wrote:
> From: steve <dlist at bluewin.ch>
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 20:14:20 +0200
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: searching across folders using mutt
>
> Hi Ranjan,
>
> notmuch will do exactly that.
>
> see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/
>
> best,
>
> steve

Steve,

Indeed, thanks very much! I have now found notmuch and also found recoll (that I had previously never heard of).

Here is a page with some help on how to  use recoll:

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/MuttAndRecoll.html

The python script is missing, but I was able to find it online by searching for it on DuckDuckGo.

For notmuch, there is some advice here: http://log.or.cz/?p=228 I found this from this other website on mutt tricks from a Rice University history professor: https://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~wcm1/mutt-tips.html

Anyway, I was wondering, what are the pros and cons of recoll vis-a-vis notmuch? Both appear to do similar things.

Many thanks again, and best wishes,
Ranjan







> Le 29-05-2022, à 10:40:27 -0500, Ranjan Maitra a écrit :
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I have now been using mutt for about 20 months or so, having graduated from sylpheed, and life is generally well, but for one issue, and that is searching across folders.
> >
> > So, suppose I know that I have an email in some folder with "stuff" in the subject line. Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about guessing the right folders. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I put it away, and occasionally, I do get lucky on a timed-release format, but I was wondering if I can get rid of this reliance on luck, as both my years and size of folders go up.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to do this in mutt? I would like to stick to simple tools (and stay in mutt) if possible.
> >
> > My email is pulled in by fetchmail from a POP3 server (gmx) and processed by procmail into folders. I do not use IMAP. I thought I would put this in in case it was relevant.
> >
> > Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> >
> >