From: Jameson Graef Rollins Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:54:48 +0000 (+1700) Subject: Re: Handling of symlinked maildirs? X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78ec5c6c5583b9ac127daa845e09899a239aa378;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Handling of symlinked maildirs? --- diff --git a/3f/3a227532c85aaafc9dd12209565f6f87e3b3cc b/3f/3a227532c85aaafc9dd12209565f6f87e3b3cc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cad2df942 --- /dev/null +++ b/3f/3a227532c85aaafc9dd12209565f6f87e3b3cc @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBA3431FC0 + for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:55 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -2.29 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.29 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_MIME_NO_TEXT=0.01] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id 3pDK9BKDDXfP for ; + Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:53 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu (outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu + [131.215.239.19]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECD8431FCF + for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:52 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from fire-doxen.imss.caltech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by fire-doxen-postvirus (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CAA2E50D72; + Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:52 -0700 (PDT) +X-Spam-Scanned: at Caltech-IMSS on fire-doxen by amavisd-new +Received: from finestructure.net (gwave-213.ligo.caltech.edu + [131.215.114.213]) (Authenticated sender: jrollins) by fire-doxen-submit + (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83119328026; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:49 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by finestructure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) + id AB0F6183; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:54:48 -0700 (PDT) +From: Jameson Graef Rollins +To: Andrei POPESCU , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: Handling of symlinked maildirs? +In-Reply-To: <20120402112828.GW21443@sid.nuvreauspam> +References: <20120402112828.GW21443@sid.nuvreauspam> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12+87~g3c4c85f (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:54:48 -0700 +Message-ID: <87sjgm3tp3.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; + micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +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: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:54:55 -0000 + +--=-=-= +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable + +On Mon, Apr 02 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: +> Im sorting my mailing lists with generic maildrop rules like this one: +> +> if (/^List-Id:.*/) +> to Maildir/.debian.$MATCH1/ +> +> However, I'm subscribed to a *lot* of mailing lists and in order to keep= +=20 +> my folder view sane I use symlinks to conflate some of them, e.g.=20 +> +> .debian.devel-announce -> .debian.devel +> +> This works well since mutt simply ignores the symlink(s) so I don't even= +=20 +> need to exclude them in the config, but it seems that notmuch does index= +=20 +> each of the symlinks as a separate folder[1]. +> +> Does it make sense to have this configurable or even completely exclude=20 +> the symlinks? + +Hey, Andrei. I would say that if you have a compelling reason that +notmuch should be able to ignore symlinked directories then it maybe +makes sense to have it configurable. However, I must say that I have +completely dropped the whole folder concept myself since I find it +totally redundant with notmuch's tagging and searching capabilities. + +> On a somewhat related note, unless I'm missing something, notmuch is=20 +> currently indexing only a few header fields, not including List-Id, and=20 +> there is no way to add custom fields. Am I correct? +> +> The reason I'm asking is that in theory one could completely drop any=20 +> sorting (just drop all mail in one folder) and use something like=20 +> 'list-id: debian-devel' instead. + +Unfortunately notmuch does only index a limited subset of headers +(pretty much just the "primary" ones). There has been a desire to be +able to index arbitrary headers for a long time now (and List-Id: has +been one of the oft-cited missing headers). It would certainly improve +the search interface if we could. + +Unfortunately no one has yet got around to coding it up. I don't think +there are any fundamental impediments, it will just take a bit of work. + +In the mean time, I wonder if it makes sense to just add List-Id to the +list of headers that we do index? I think that would be a pretty simple +change, and I think a lot of folks would benefit. + +jamie. + +--=-=-= +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) + +iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPeefoAAoJEO00zqvie6q8zD8P/3AzT5mqMZitRC5ujcjLBZoG +CZqQhP3gqDK00uLEr2HBgGt6rDKVnHyU4cuEl96QTABEFiYqYrck6EGwjWavm1d8 +JnkJBps7zZjP9zRbFfENYwT7/tt2rnJFJ2Hs9rCGPPuuI8VxkGJtWBqhhUp5G7tT +h8B6ltHGPxS+vkm84RE5q9Vl7kNJb0t9K4pWN5Qlj5r0notdxNbvjh/fKjFx/xZt +Tk6t0tkskzRrmzGhbG+9rnMLX2nQ2XjN03pLkyBeN6I/NB8JhQHZHHejgR/bRbea +wM6nyVMjyZuyl7hZIa3ul3RjbMEwPGDt7VphumK9JfyB6PnMrzuvNoXK2WQMsiFf +tyBoUlwiPe9g6DVQsoPpb2a3vmDUHWP14LbE0XKt7D4Q2g3gnUDOq49am0yF5ST5 +4wCIl28WLgLSV1yMlvaX7e8wAg1nNC4hWXc4j4dVF5u66XLcaFgbuLkGOPMsOZpG +bYK3ZhSAlhqxRVHX/S0K+oH57oQgVy6hD236gJMs58kMeGbW4jB5DJAZC79Uw58C +BLO6bep3XjctFqCX5ueQ7SXTOsG9uSrS2wP3gDc3GZbd9TaaJv5owL2w8CfAS3ir +t1H8j9YG51x+VE4kYqctv+ilQthhPRM+gBqhz+YfQiEdaI0f6IC2YGXsqMvt+aC1 +rNVV0tZ5kpBOAO1+KW+B +=MF5l +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +--=-=-=--