Re: Error from mh-index-search

Eric Jensen <ejensen1 <at> swarthmore.edu> writes:

> So it looks like part of the problem is how to handle more robustly the
> case when search results are returned that aren't actually mh messages.

I've checked in a fix that will at least avoid the problem that
you were seeing.

> And correspondingly, how to modify the recommend default .swish/config
> in the docs to help avoid this in the first place.  Maybe a line like:
> 
>  FileMatch filename contains ^\d+$
> 
> By the way, I'd also recommend "DefaultContents TXT*" since otherwise
> swish-e use HTML2, which takes a lot longer to do the indexing.

I think adding these is a good idea.  So I've added these to the
sample config file as well.  It would be great if you could check
if I did it right.

> Are there any cases where messages would be stored with filenames that
> contains characters other than digits?

I can't think of any.

Thanks,
Satyaki