Re: [notmuch] proposal for more streamlined mail flow in notmuch

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+also sprach Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> [2010.01.17.0949 +=\r
+1300]:\r
+> I would like to put forth here a proposal for a couple of changes\r
+> to notmuch that I believe will considerably streamline message\r
+> handling and new message flow through notmuch.  Notmuch is still\r
+> new and I believe it hasn't quite figured out the best way to\r
+> handle message flow in the new mail handling paradigm that it is\r
+> working.  This is a proposal to fix that.\r
+>\r
+> I believe that most people are syncing their mail from remote IMAP or\r
+> POP servers to local maildirs (via offlineimap for instance), and that\r
+> most people's IMAP servers have limited storage capacity.  This\r
+> practically means that people can not keep all of their mail in a\r
+> single directory.  However, notmuch currently basically assumes that\r
+> this is what is happening.  In order to keep synced maildirs from\r
+> growing out of hand, messages need to be either deleted or moved out\r
+> of the "inbox" where they initially show up.\r
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+We should keep this in mind when designing an object store, whether\r
+or not that's based on Git. If we use Git, then a local branch is\r
+all we really need to support this. \o/\r
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