Re: Dreaming of tag-based e-mailing

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "Fernando H. F. Botelho" <fernando.botelho@f123.org>,\r
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+Subject: Re: Dreaming of tag-based e-mailing\r
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+"Fernando H. F. Botelho" <fernando.botelho@f123.org> writes:\r
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+> 1. I tag incoming messages with any number of arbitrary tags, and these \r
+> get assigned not just to that specific e-mail message, but also to the \r
+> contact (i.e. email address) behind it.\r
+> 2. I decide I have a message to send to every person that has tag A, B, \r
+> D, F, and Z, and I select those and the e-mail client allows me to \r
+> e-mail my message to every contact that has all of those tags.\r
+\r
+Notmuch does not (currently) deal with contacts as first class\r
+entities. There are some scripts and extensions that search the database\r
+of mail messages and extract contact information, but currently there is\r
+no way within notmuch to add tags to contacts.\r
+\r
+What you are interested in could be done, but it would require some\r
+programming. It is true that your goal sounds a bit CRM-like; on the\r
+other hand most CRM systems are probably too large and complex to be\r
+comfortable for a single user. As far as I know they are also typically\r
+browser based (whether that is good or bad depends on you).\r
+\r
+> By that I mean, that I need to know if I should ask for help \r
+> from someone that knows C, Python, PHP, or something else, or if that \r
+> someone has to be a big Mutt fan, or SugarCRM, or Thunderbird, etc.\r
+\r
+The core of notmuch is in C and C++. There are bindings for several\r
+languages, with python being the most used. 'alot' is one notmuch-based\r
+mail user agent written in python. As far as I know, the most popular\r
+way to use notmuch is via the emacs front-end; to customize this one\r
+would need to use emacs-lisp.\r
+\r
+> I am also trying to find a solution that would run on Gnome or the Gnome \r
+> Terminal as KDE is not accessible to the Orca screen reader right now.\r
+\r
+Any text based program should work find in the Gnome Terminal.\r
+\r
+Mutt is another, much older mail-user-agent, which I personally don't\r
+know much about. The next version of notmuch will ship with some\r
+integration scripts for mutt and notmuch. There is also the 'mutt-kz'\r
+project, to rewrite mutt with a notmuch back-end.\r
+\r
+Hope this helps,\r
+\r
+David\r
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+\r