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[David Mazieres]

Gaute Hope <eg at gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

>> Really what you want is an imap server built on top of the notmuch
>> library.  That way you could use notmuch from your desktop and then use
>> imap from your phone, and everything would stay perfectly in sync.
>> Implementing such a server wouldn't be that hard, but it would help if
>> notmuch made the _notmuch_message_get_doc_id and
>> _notmuch_directory_get_document_id functions semi-public.  Then the imap
>> server could just use docids as uids.  (Plus then muchsync wouldn't have
>> to go through gross contortions to get docids information...)
>
> That would be nice, but a solution where the user does not need to run
> his own server is in my opinion pretty essential.

You don't have to "run" an imap server, you can use it in preauth mode.
Having a notmuch-based imap server would let you synchronize gmail with
your laptop and then read email offline, for instance.

David