Re: [PATCH] notmuch new: add a --in-directory option

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] notmuch new: add a --in-directory option\r
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+On Thu, Mar 06 2014, Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca> wrote:\r
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+> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:\r
+>> That aside, I'm curious what the use case for this is.\r
+\r
+I am also interested... How are mails delivered so that\r
+--in-directory=folder is useful\r
+\r
+>\r
+> My usecase for this is the same as for the similar patch I worked on\r
+> previously (id:1373762746-22308-1-git-send-email-awg+notmuch@xvx.ca):\r
+\r
+... as this is (much more) interesting to me too ...\r
+\r
+\r
+> I use inotify to watch for new messages in my maildir. When I receive\r
+> a new message, I run notmuch new (after waiting a couple of seconds\r
+> since messages sometimes arrive in batches). But since I already know\r
+> exactly what changed, there's no need for notmuch new to scan the\r
+> whole directory tree. I'm not sure whether this patch lets me specify\r
+> a file, or only a directory: the former would be preferable for my\r
+> usecase, but either way it's probably an enhancement for me.\r
+\r
+my mails are delivered by\r
+https://github.com/domo141/nottoomuch/blob/master/md5mda.sh\r
+to ~/mail/received/??/??????????????????????????????\r
+and log to the deliveries are kept:\r
+\r
+$ echo; tail -5 mail/log/md5mda-201403.log\r
+\r
+2014-03-07 (Fri) 11:58:37: Added 'received/a8/5bb1949aa85bb84287499555dabb00'\r
+2014-03-07 (Fri) 12:33:57: Added 'received/34/b786dabccc980b3b651e85f3d7fd48'\r
+2014-03-07 (Fri) 12:35:01: Added 'received/c0/e89f83383d066cc922512dc5eddb5d'\r
+2014-03-07 (Fri) 13:04:32: Added 'received/f5/ff8b132d3c4f8ca63215d8de41de9c'\r
+2014-03-07 (Fri) 13:25:00: Added 'received/9a/848dd40274fe5b6d6bcbad80b2e7fd'\r
+\r
+>From that information I could launch notmuch new [files...] \r
+(or notmuch new --batch !) to index all files since last attempt(*)\r
+\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+\r
+(*) routine would be: \r
+       1) get size of last log file (for final stored offset)\r
+        2) read the info of last read log file and offset\r
+        3) feed the filenames between these 2 offsets.\r
+        4) update the final stored offset\r
+        5) check whether the size (or name) of the last log \r
+          file has changed and if had, go step 2\r
+\r
+> -- Adam\r
+\r
+Tomi\r