searching across folders using mutt

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun May29'22 11:31:51PM, Greg Marks wrote:
> From: Greg Marks <gtmarks at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 23:31:51 -0500
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: searching across folders using mutt
>
> > 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.
> >
> > > notmuch will do exactly that.
> > >
> > > see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/
>
> According to the man page for notmuch:
>
>    Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file
>    contains many messages), will not work with notmuch.  If
>    that's how your mail is currently stored, it is recommended
>    you first convert it to maildir format with a utility such
>    as mb2md before running notmuch setup .

Thanks, I use maildir for a while now, so I am good with notmuch. Still wondering about notmuch vs. recoll, though.

> Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose
> e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format?

I seem to have read somewhere today that recoll works with mbox, but I am not sure if I read this correctly.

Many thanks again!
Ranjan