Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:28:28 +0300
From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Handling of symlinked maildirs?
Message-ID: <20120402112828.GW21443@sid.nuvreauspam>
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Hi,

Im sorting my mailing lists with generic maildrop rules like this one:

    if (/^List-Id:.*<debian-(.*)\.lists.debian.org>/)
        to Maildir/.debian.$MATCH1/

However, I'm subscribed to a *lot* of mailing lists and in order to keep=20
my folder view sane I use symlinks to conflate some of them, e.g.=20

=2Edebian.devel-announce -> .debian.devel

This works well since mutt simply ignores the symlink(s) so I don't even=20
need to exclude them in the config, but it seems that notmuch does index=20
each of the symlinks as a separate folder[1].

Does it make sense to have this configurable or even completely exclude=20
the symlinks?

On a somewhat related note, unless I'm missing something, notmuch is=20
currently indexing only a few header fields, not including List-Id, and=20
there is no way to add custom fields. Am I correct?

The reason I'm asking is that in theory one could completely drop any=20
sorting (just drop all mail in one folder) and use something like=20
'list-id: debian-devel' instead.

Yes, I'm aware that one could work around it by using To:/Cc:, but I'd=20
like to distinguish between messages received via the mailing list or=20
directly to my private address, otherwise I'd be using Gmail for=20
everything anyway :)

[1] this also causes mutt-notmuch to generate a lot of errors when it=20
tries to symlink the same message twice to the cache maildir.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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