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From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Servilio Afre Puentes wrote:
> On 13 October 2010 08:13, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> [...]
> > THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE KNOWN ISSUE: Viewing/storing of attachments of
> > unread messages doesn't work. The reason is that when you view the
> > message its unread tag is removed which causes the file to be renamed,
> > but Emacs still uses the original name to access the attachment. You can
> > workaround this by closing the message and opening it again. This issue
> > will be fixed after we (I) implement "notmuch cat" command. With this
> > command, emacs would not access the messages by the file name, but by
> > running notmuch cat id:<message-id> which will always give the correct
> > content.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more efficient to query notmuch for the filename using
> the message ID we store in the DB? When network usage is implemented,
> tramp can give us transparent remote file access in emacs.

Tramp would not be available in non-emacs GUIs. Also, when notmuch cat
is implemented, emacs gui will be usable remotely by simply defining
notmuch-command variable to contain the name of the script containing:

     ssh user@host notmuch "$@"

-Michal