[notmuch] proposal for more streamlined mail flow in notmuch

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> [2010.01.17.0949 +1300]:
> I would like to put forth here a proposal for a couple of changes
> to notmuch that I believe will considerably streamline message
> handling and new message flow through notmuch.  Notmuch is still
> new and I believe it hasn't quite figured out the best way to
> handle message flow in the new mail handling paradigm that it is
> working.  This is a proposal to fix that.
>
> I believe that most people are syncing their mail from remote IMAP or
> POP servers to local maildirs (via offlineimap for instance), and that
> most people's IMAP servers have limited storage capacity.  This
> practically means that people can not keep all of their mail in a
> single directory.  However, notmuch currently basically assumes that
> this is what is happening.  In order to keep synced maildirs from
> growing out of hand, messages need to be either deleted or moved out
> of the "inbox" where they initially show up.

We should keep this in mind when designing an object store, whether
or not that's based on Git. If we use Git, then a local branch is
all we really need to support this. \o/

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