List of features people have requested and ideas that people want to keep thinking about

Emacs client

• Add 'd' keybinding

  Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.

  When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that the cursor is on.

  When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently displayed message inside the thread.

• Add 'D' keybinding

  Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.

  When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that the cursor is on (just like 'd')

  When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently displayed thread (and not just the message)

• Add '???' keybinding

  Skips current thread without archiving it

  Right now 'n' gets me to the end of a thread, but not to the beginning of the next thread. 'a' gets you to the next thread, but archives the current one.

• Allow different "real names" for the optional email addresses

  if only one name is configured, use that for all addresses; if othernames are configured, match those with the otheremail addresses

notmuch

• Allow a custom location for .notmuch

  The notmuch index is currently saved in .notmuch under the user's Maildir and there's no configuration option to change that.

  This is problematic with both tools that sync Maildirs and with IMAP servers that consider .notmuch a Maildir subfolder (e.g. dovecot)

  A better solution would be to add a configuration option for this so that it can be put e.g. in ~/.notmuch

• Add a list or pattern for subfolders to ignore

  Some people are crazy enough to archive e.g. their Spam in their Maildir and perhaps they'd prefer not having them indexed on notmuch.

  Having a configuration option to exclude or include certain subparts of the user's Maildir would be a very nice feature to have.

• Index more headers. Some desired headers:

  • Received: allows for searches based on the arrival path
  • Reply-To: allows for searches based on the return address

• Allow anchors in searches

  notmuch search from:domain.org$ only matches if "domain.org" is at the end of the From: header

  notmuch search from:^username only matches if "username" is at the beginning of the From: header (right after the ':')

  This leaves the interesting question if we want a way to bind to the actual address component.

• Add folder tags to mail automatically

  Add the name of the IMAP folder as the tag for mails. This way, server-side filtering can be directly used by notmuch to tag all incoming mail.

• Make message store code modular

  Notmuch is built on the assumption that the message store is a collection of message files in directories (roughly Maildir format). This performs suboptimally for a wide range of systems, especially with large numbers of messages. Modularising the message store code to move this assumption into the implementation rather than the interface would allow adding support for different message stores like the traditional mbox formats as well as more experimental approaches like using git as an object storage (similar to how nmbug operates).

3rd party apps

notmuchsync

NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests features for it, rather than notmuch itself.

• DONE: id:"878w8niy83.fsf@SSpaeth.de" Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy

  notmuchsync --move "searchstring" "targetfolder"

  Where searchstring is any valid notmuch search