Re: mairix patches; mairix difference vs notmuch?

[Simon Burge]

Hi Conrad,

Conrad Hughes wrote:

> In case it's of interest to anyone here, I recently got around to trying
> mairix for indexing my MH mail and quite liked it.  Some niggles annoyed
> me though so I've a fork up on github which:
>
>   - Numbers search results sequentially from 1 in the MH search results
>     folder.
>   - Sorts search results by date.
>   - Supports MMDF archives.
>   - Supports xz-compressed MMDF/mbox archives.

I like the first two features!

> .. repo here: https://github.com/ConradHughes/mairix/tree/cjch

I had a problem with dfasyn dumping core while building with gcc7 due to
an out-of-bounds bug accessing an array.  Seems like this bug has been
there ~forever?  I think I've sent you a pull request in github to fix
this (still pretty new to github).

> I'm curious whether anyone has a strong preference for notmuch and if
> so, why.

Looked at notmuch briefly once, stuck with mairix :).

Cheers,
Simon.