[notmuch] reading with multiple MUAs from MailDir

Roger WANG roger.wang at intel.com
Thu Dec 10 22:53:04 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:11 +0800 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 
> While playing with notmuch I am still using evolution to read the email
> in the same MailDir that is being indexed / processed by notmuch. With
> the result that lots of emails can not be found in notmuch if they have

I have the similar problem here, and Carl said in IRC "There's basically
one feature missing before notmuch will play with another maildir-based
mail reader.".

There is also a thread "[PATCH] Handle message renames in mail spool" in
the archive which might help:

http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2009/000364.html
http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2009/000562.html

> been marked as read in evolution between processing in notmuch and
> trying to access them from the user interface.
> 
> This makes notmuch /really/ hard to test for me at this point.
> 
> Is there a workaround?
> 
> /D
> 
> 

-- 
Roger WANG


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