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+Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:34:26 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@Oracle.COM>\r
+Subject: Re: Possible addtions to notmuch new ?\r
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+Quoth Vladimir Marek on Aug 12 at 11:34 am:\r
+> Hi,\r
+> \r
+> My mail setup is a directory containing several subdirectories each\r
+> subdirectory corresponds to one real mail account I am using. Each mail\r
+> account is synchronized differently - I am using offlineimap, fetchmeail\r
+> or even synthetically created emails (I am writing very simple jabber<->\r
+> mail gate).Every now and then I am running 'notmuch new' to discover new\r
+> emails and make them available in my MUA.\r
+> \r
+> That works pretty well, but has some disadvantages too\r
+> - notmuch new takes very long time (30s) during which the notmuch\r
+> database seems to be locked for any other updates from my MUA\r
+> - notmuch new takes long time because it always processes my archive\r
+> dir containing many files. That's mostly un-necessary as typically\r
+> there's no new mail delivered\r
+\r
+Could you try this patch? It's basically untested other than passing\r
+the test suite, though in principle the worst harm it could do is make\r
+notmuch new miss new messages or think renames are deletions. If it\r
+helps significantly with your performance problems, I'll clean it up\r
+and add a test.\r
+\r
+diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c\r
+index faa33f1..196c5cb 100644\r
+--- a/notmuch-new.c\r
++++ b/notmuch-new.c\r
+@@ -323,6 +323,9 @@ add_files (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,\r
+ }\r
+ db_mtime = directory ? notmuch_directory_get_mtime (directory) : 0;\r
+ \r
++ if (directory && db_mtime == fs_mtime && st.st_nlink == 2)\r
++ goto DONE;\r
++\r
+ /* If the database knows about this directory, then we sort based\r
+ * on strcmp to match the database sorting. Otherwise, we can do\r
+ * inode-based sorting for faster filesystem operation. */\r
+\r
+\r
+> - I don't have the possibility of passing new mails through procmail.\r
+> That would be useful for example for changing cron mail subjects,\r
+> putting related automated mails into threads (bugzilla, etc.).\r
+> \r
+> \r
+> I was thinking that if we could split the new mail discovery from\r
+> it's processing, it would solve the disadvantages I'm facing. Something\r
+> like\r
+> \r
+> notmuch new --verbose --dry-run [dir] | my_filter | notmuch insert -\r
+> \r
+> It would work\r
+> - --dry-run would not lock and change the database\r
+> - --verbose would print the changes to stdout/stderr. Something like:\r
+> \r
+> new mail/file.1\r
+> new mail/file.2\r
+> deleted mail/file.3\r
+> renamed mail/file.4 mail/file.5\r
+> ...\r
+> \r
+> [dir] would limit the scope of 'notmuch' new search to dir and it's\r
+> subdirectories. Alternatively we could have set of include or exclude\r
+> rules similarly to rsync (for example), but [dir] is easier to\r
+> implement.\r
+> \r
+> 'my_filter' would be my script which could change the contents of emails\r
+> before they are inserted into notmuch database.\r
+> \r
+> Notmuch insert would be able to not only add new mails, but also remove\r
+> old ones or note that the file was renamed.\r
+> \r
+> How would this sound?\r
+> \r
+> I'm not saying I would implement this, I'm rather curious where would\r
+> you like to see notmuch in the future.\r
+> \r
+> Cheers\r