[PATCH 0/4] Maildir synchronization v2

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:34:34 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Servilio Afre Puentes wrote:
> > On 13 October 2010 08:13, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE KNOWN ISSUE: Viewing/storing of attachments of
> > > unread messages doesn't work. The reason is that when you view the
> > > message its unread tag is removed which causes the file to be renamed,
> > > but Emacs still uses the original name to access the attachment. You can
> > > workaround this by closing the message and opening it again. This issue
> > > will be fixed after we (I) implement "notmuch cat" command. With this
> > > command, emacs would not access the messages by the file name, but by
> > > running notmuch cat id:<message-id> which will always give the correct
> > > content.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more efficient to query notmuch for the filename using
> > the message ID we store in the DB? When network usage is implemented,
> > tramp can give us transparent remote file access in emacs.
> 
> Tramp would not be available in non-emacs GUIs. Also, when notmuch cat
> is implemented, emacs gui will be usable remotely by simply defining
> notmuch-command variable to contain the name of the script containing:
> 
>      ssh user at host notmuch "$@"

That to me is certainly a very elegant solution... so what's stopping us
from implementing notmuch cat? No one taken the time to do it? Or is
there a design issue left to be resolved?

/D