Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch: Add Maildir directory name as tag name for messages

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+From: Michiel Buddingh' <michiel@michielbuddingh.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch: Add Maildir directory name as tag\r
+       name for messages\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+\r
+> > A Maildir-aware notmuch could incorporate this to be far more\r
+> > resistant to bulk mail moves done by other clients, by using\r
+> > filename lookups to avoid accessing and parsing the mail\r
+> > files themselves.\r
+\r
+> I don't think opening a file to read out a message ID will ever be\r
+> a bottleneck. But yes, we could take advantage of the unique name\r
+> if we insisted that the storage have it.\r
+\r
+I'm not so sure.  On traditional unix-like filesystems, every file \r
+access is another potential disk seek.  \r
+\r
+People use a lot of different strategies for keeping their mail \r
+accessible and performant; you yourself, I gather, use non-semantic\r
+directories mainly intended to keep the number of files per directory\r
+low; others store their mail per month, or per year.\r
+\r
+I might choose to move all my mail from 2008 from my INBOX to the \r
+folder Archive.2008; such moves may change the paths of thousands \r
+of messages at a time.\r
+\r
+> Personally, I still regularly end up indexing stuff that's not \r
+> in proper maildir format, (like just manually copying a mail\r
+> file "foo" down into a directory that I know isn't being delivered \r
+> to by any MDA but that I want notmuch to index.) Maybe that's just\r
+> me, because I'm always bringing up little things for debugging, \r
+> etc. But it is convenient at least.\r
+\r
+Oh true.  And it occurs to me that notmuch is a quite sensible \r
+companion tool to MH users (if they're still around in any numbers)\r
+\r
+> Actually, I don't think that's true at all. Notmuch is definitely\r
+> intended to become a lot more than it is right now. And if it's not\r
+> making it easy for you to deal with mail the way you'd like to, then\r
+> we definitely do want to look into expanding notmuch to be able to\r
+> address that.\r
+\r
+Thanks for your consideration; on the other hand, I do think that it\r
+is a good idea not to make matters more complex than they need to be,\r
+so I can certainly sympathise with the principles you've set for this\r
+project.\r
+\r
+regards,\r
+Michiel Buddingh'\r