[notmuch] Mailstore abstraction & maildir synchronization

Stewart Smith stewart at flamingspork.com
Tue Mar 23 22:06:00 PDT 2010


On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:39:36 +0100, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> - Only file-based storage is suported. Notmuch access the files
>   directly, and not via the mailstore interface.

It'll be great when this is fixed... should be trivial to add a git
backend then.

(i have in no way been looking at tags in git though... doesn't really
interest me and git aint a database)

> - (maildir) Viewing/storing of attachments of unread messages doesn't
>   work. The reason is that when you view the message it its unread tag
>   is removed which leads to rename of the file, but Emacs still uses
>   the original name to access the attachment.

What about migrating from a maildir that's turned into notmuch back to
this maildir backend? What will be authoritive: maildir or notmuch database?
-- 
Stewart Smith


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