From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: piuttosto@logorroici.org, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Info about notmuch database
In-Reply-To: <20120102160417.GA15640@edge>
References: <20120102160417.GA15640@edge>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:26:42 -0800
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:04:17 +0100, piuttosto@logorroici.org wrote:
> I like notmuch a lot, so I'm writing a (conceptually) similar software
> about addressbook: it will scan all your emails, storing email addresses
> in a xapian database (you can think of it as little brother database[1] on
> steroids)
> The part that I'd like to re-implement is "notmuch new": it seems that
> in the xapian db there is not only informations about each mail, but
> also the mtime of each directory. My impression is this being "chaotic",
> but probably I am just missing the point.

Hi.  I think this is a neat idea.  However, it has be wondering: would
it be possible to just extend the notmuch database itself to support
this?  Could notmuch just index all the email addresses in such a way
that they would be easily retrievable?  Maybe through an "addresses" sub
command or something?  Obviously having notmuch handle this
functionality natively would get rid of the need to reinvent a lot of
the stuff you're trying to reinvent now (such as "notmuch new").

jamie.

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