From e507d291f51ac71f3e6964eab6160e76428843bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:24:47 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: Bug#817964: notmuch: indexing daemon --- e7/73302f49aa230e06e8cae4ca847f2fb7cf7be8 | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 e7/73302f49aa230e06e8cae4ca847f2fb7cf7be8 diff --git a/e7/73302f49aa230e06e8cae4ca847f2fb7cf7be8 b/e7/73302f49aa230e06e8cae4ca847f2fb7cf7be8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bbab659b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/e7/73302f49aa230e06e8cae4ca847f2fb7cf7be8 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3C16DE13EF + for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:24:56 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.033 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.033 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[AWL=-0.022, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id cqb7oh16WROO for ; + Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:24:54 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E4326DE13DA + for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:24:54 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) + id 1aehfi-00049c-FG; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 06:25:26 -0500 +Received: (nullmailer pid 29497 invoked by uid 1000); + Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:24:47 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Paul Wise , 817964@bugs.debian.org +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: Bug#817964: notmuch: indexing daemon +In-Reply-To: <1457760049.3681.29.camel@debian.org> +References: <1457760049.3681.29.camel@debian.org> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+74~g6c60fb1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:24:47 -0400 +Message-ID: <87bn6k6irk.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:24:56 -0000 + +Paul Wise writes: + +> I would like to have a daemon running to index my mail as it arrives, +> gets marked read and is deleted. This would ensure that the database is +> up to date when I do a search using notmuch or one of the interfaces. +> +> Right now if I mark a mail as read and try to view it in a notmuch +> frontend then I get an error until I manually run `notmuch new`.=C2=A0 +> + +Can you describe in more detail what error you are seeing, and how the +file is being marked read? + +> I expect the right interface to use for notifications of filesystem +> events is inotify since fanotify doesn't send rename events. This would +> require one inotify per directory. +> +> It would be great if it could autostart when=C2=A0~/.notmuch-config exist= +s, +> using systemd per-user services or perhaps via login autostart stuff. + +Currently notmuch doesn't deal very well with e.g. tag changes while +indexing is happening, and my personal feeling is that we should improve +that behaviour first before supporting more concurrency upstream. + +d + -- 2.26.2