[notmuch] Quick thoughts on a notmuch daemon

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+Subject: [notmuch] Quick thoughts on a notmuch daemon\r
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+Here's a little idea in case someone wants to write some code before I\r
+get around to it.\r
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+Two current problems:\r
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+  1. You can't read mail (updating tags, etc.) at the same time new mail\r
+     is being incorporated to the database. So if you have "notmuch new"\r
+     as a cron job, then you will sometimes see "failed to obtain write\r
+     lock" in emacs.\r
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+  2. Lots of people want to interact with a notmuch database on a remote\r
+     server, for obvious reasons.\r
+\r
+A simple solution would be a notmuch daemon that can accept commands on\r
+stdin, (in basically the exact same form as the current notmuch\r
+command-line interface). If the daemon does the job of periodically\r
+incorporating new mail, then the only command necessary to solve (1)\r
+above would be the tag command.\r
+\r
+But with the other commands in place, (such as search and show), then\r
+this could operate over ssh and all that would be necessary is one\r
+additional command not in the current command line, (for "give me this\r
+file"). And then the client could just maintain a local cache of mail\r
+files as needed.\r
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+So that might be a nice project for somebody, and would likely be very\r
+useful for many people.\r
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+-Carl\r
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