[X-Unix] Spotlight indexing Maildir from alternative MUA

[John Harrold]

Howdy,

I use mutt as my MUA and I recently converted all of my mail from mbox to
maildir format. I'd like to be able to index my mail in spotlight so it
would be searchable. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a convenient
way to do this. I looked around on the web and the nearest thing I've come
up with is the following:

http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mh-e.user/page=9

Basically I tell the "system", sorry I don't really know the correct
terminology her, that the files are text files by doing the following:

  find /path/to/mh/top-level/directory/ -name "[0-9]*" -type f \ 
     -exec /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t TEXT {} \;

Then I tell spotlight to index them:

  mdimport /path/to/mh/top-level/directory/ 

I was wondering if anyone had anything to add to this? I've never messed
with spotlight at this level, so I thought it would be good to ask before I
started mucking around with it.

Thanks.

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