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+From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>\r
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+Hi David,\r
+\r
+On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:12:19PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:\r
+> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:\r
+> \r
+> >\r
+> > Often when searching for messages from these collaborators, I realise I\r
+> > cannot recall their real names (or cannot spell it correctly). It would\r
+> > be great if notmuch had a facility to map nicknames to real names;\r
+> > something like what git does with .mailmap.\r
+> >\r
+> > Does something like this exist? If not, is it feasible? I think it\r
+> > would be a great addition.\r
+> \r
+> It might be possible to use xapian synonyms\r
+> \r
+> http://xapian.org/docs/synonyms.html\r
+> \r
+> to do this.\r
+\r
+That is exactly the kind of functionality I was hoping for.\r
+\r
+> \r
+> The basic synonym enabling doesn't look that hard, I think the fiddly\r
+> bits would be in loading up the synonyms at right time. We'd have to\r
+> think about how to sensibly store/backup this information so that\r
+> bindings users could have access to it.\r
+\r
+I'm not familiar with the notmuch code base at all, but I would like to\r
+help getting this feature in. Do you have any hints where I should\r
+start looking? Is there any background work that I could do?\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Suvayu\r
+\r
+Open source is the future. It sets us free.\r