Debian Package a Day ([info]debaday) wrote,
@ 2004-08-11 08:00:00
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mairix - Indexes and searches email in Maildir and MH formats
mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir or MH folders.

  • Indexing is fast. It runs incrementally on new messages - any particular message only gets scanned once in the lifetime of the index file.
  • The search mode populates a "virtual" maildir folder with symlinks which point to the real messages. This folder can be opened as usual in your mail program.
  • The search mode is very fast.
  • Indexing and searching works on the basis of words. The index file tabulates which words occur in which parts (particular headers + body) of which messages.

Paga writes:
Mairix is a grepmail like program, but it works with mbox, mh and maildir mailboxes. It also builds indexes of all your messages beforehand, so the search itself is amazingly fast. It's one of those programs you can't live without if you handle large amounts of email (who doesn't?).


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mairix on woody
(Anonymous)
2004-08-18 12:16 pm UTC (link)
This is a program I've been looking for some other time, thanks for pointing this out to me/us!

Since this package doesn't exist in woody, I wanted to build it myself. I just wanted to share with you others, in case you want to build it too.

You could either get 0.11 from mairix' official homepage[1], where you can find the .dsc and .diff to build it for debian. Or you could download the source from d.o[2]. (0.11 is > 1 year old, 0.15 is from Aug -04)
[1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/mairix/
[2] http://packages.debian.org/mairix

I never got it to build without upgrading tetex, somehow the pdftex.fmt never gets generated for me. So, I used a newer version found on apt-get.org (http://apt-get.org), backported for woody. You need tetex-bin tetex-base tetex-extra.

Then just do the regular build procedure:
$ dpkg-source -x mairix_0.15-2.dsc
$ cd mairix-0.15/
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary

Hope that helped someone. Since I've never bothered configure tetex, I spent a long time trying to figure out why the pdftex.fmt was missing. I think it's a missing pdftex.ini, but I have no clue.

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