From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:28:28 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Handling of symlinked maildirs? X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=834395f5d27914bdcc2dad3158e39f34492035e4;p=notmuch-archives.git Handling of symlinked maildirs? --- diff --git a/86/b981eb212a8bdff5fc186386db3c37af06048a b/86/b981eb212a8bdff5fc186386db3c37af06048a new file mode 100644 index 000000000..31ee0218c --- /dev/null +++ b/86/b981eb212a8bdff5fc186386db3c37af06048a @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +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 D04CB431FC2 + for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 04:28:36 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.799 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.799 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, + FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] 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 9OyMJ6tSmuyX for ; + Mon, 2 Apr 2012 04:28:36 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail-wg0-f45.google.com (mail-wg0-f45.google.com + [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client + certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id + 107BB431FC0 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 04:28:35 -0700 + (PDT) +Received: by wgbds10 with SMTP id ds10so2102612wgb.2 + for ; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:28:33 -0700 (PDT) +DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; + h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type + :content-disposition:user-agent; + bh=BHOjsGQLhOzXYCiwsI61uDFZRbTSd1ZL2GkDc1KPHFY=; + b=J4cl8YH8YiJQuE1/xf3u13Fph5tUFz1szBLF4xsM3gu42Hi/w2eFYx8hffJO8x0rXl + v4TPVsYLD/69pjuuBypPABlko58zN+tjWHOeZkKMboSYmhozNXffhGE4kp+j5wL/ShJf + lu+4wS/eyIMpXQ+eCiMnChTNKEWjRFQnIzvSAynJEdLKviOQXNyE5UxVb/MPObBi87Vh + sDo3K9igSipSO39diVGAb7k6N2YwBhM75OU29VTIvHrsqsTu4DC9GTlpKT+n1Fqc9LEi + EilV9PftzQLzwQKmFuN26svrxV1B7eQnhW3/q61KNUt7Mb3cMvPuJeiO5wDfzI0/z1re + IJkg== +Received: by 10.180.103.35 with SMTP id ft3mr24082019wib.0.1333366113375; + Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:28:33 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from sid.nuvreauspam ([92.86.142.199]) + by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ex2sm54076255wib.8.2012.04.02.04.28.30 + (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); + Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:28:31 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by sid.nuvreauspam (Postfix, from userid 1077) + id C3417C0353; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:28:28 +0300 (EEST) +Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:28:28 +0300 +From: Andrei POPESCU +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Handling of symlinked maildirs? +Message-ID: <20120402112828.GW21443@sid.nuvreauspam> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; + protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K5roPakIqCb4O6y8" +Content-Disposition: inline +User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) +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 11:28:37 -0000 + + +--K5roPakIqCb4O6y8 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +Content-Disposition: inline +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable + +Hi, + +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 + +=2Edebian.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? + +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. + +Yes, I'm aware that one could work around it by using To:/Cc:, but I'd=20 +like to distinguish between messages received via the mailing list or=20 +directly to my private address, otherwise I'd be using Gmail for=20 +everything anyway :) + +[1] this also causes mutt-notmuch to generate a lot of errors when it=20 +tries to symlink the same message twice to the cache maildir. + +Kind regards, +Andrei +--=20 +If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. +(Albert Einstein) + +--K5roPakIqCb4O6y8 +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" +Content-Description: Digital signature + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) + +iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJPeY1cAAoJEHNWs3jeoi3pxpMH/25ZJtDN0f8v1t8toDUjn1HN ++qn6ICj2tqOTMQczS/pxpSUl3Bkt6i3RZQLi/cGjLeX5Pf06b/io3y+XImmo8aHQ +Cjag+AFuaiQ481gQEdIX2qQPaQGUH6R5pGhXtzVS3N+qQBCZouR9Rw0iuoh9qKEE +Kh5DLxGsRwLbLxF/5z6GndAyOoObNaOWE4MAbc1TD/5Oftef0LLoUqjAH7fFkbV4 +OthodEGvHlhttREluiQihtSmRyYIS3mlWTD8qVYDhluoGq9AZRUXJAYZjux0Kr3Q +0c+P2Bfr0SRB9UjXRnoTy87LSoKj6AYqAs+SCPTq+oCVy9tAULEynr4zaPczYE4= +=VyXw +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- + +--K5roPakIqCb4O6y8--