From d4cc79a1d5e1e5ed739bde6d1814701b1ef15fee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe-Marie Duquesne Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:11:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir) --- b4/0b97cdbe7c304ae9827cc2b95fe7531d54603a | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+) create mode 100644 b4/0b97cdbe7c304ae9827cc2b95fe7531d54603a diff --git a/b4/0b97cdbe7c304ae9827cc2b95fe7531d54603a b/b4/0b97cdbe7c304ae9827cc2b95fe7531d54603a new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ce4172dae --- /dev/null +++ b/b4/0b97cdbe7c304ae9827cc2b95fe7531d54603a @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +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 E0F1A431FB6 + for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:29 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.699 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.699 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-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 iGMEKZ9d13lB for ; + Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:27 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com (mail-qa0-f46.google.com + [209.85.216.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A83E1431FAE + for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:27 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by qaas11 with SMTP id s11so2512135qaa.5 + for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:26 -0700 (PDT) +DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; + h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date + :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; + bh=7HYAlBtkIR3ccyFNau4Bldx6YCTap8UBpAlaBvCYFLw=; + b=GClmcAGKUGklt6AycF2eEGhXgFy63zv3iggcsm78flMjw9EG/2h83o4sqMfGzrICHT + JVrubDNIPfnGFpxu38h1nmwo1wf5MePj4xLwfI/hZIypESng1gCuFXPz0AKX2N1UGHXR + svlDS4MdVC9+itN5RT8F82MfKaC5y3brs3qOgMJFrm5n0j9F9/kefEVLDiQOK6RBB52S + I83DjKzDpseitSvL44OlOQmkH/2TitwazkmeNwbHxM9BOs0odnJvr5weov/SSe4ZNmY3 + IlqyiimQl49ehrmM0fdTaJKQBdQljgcEhb0oSG2QLIuOzK5+5sOaotd4ejsnfQFNirlC + iVIA== +Received: by 10.50.182.229 with SMTP id eh5mr13355776igc.38.1344967885616; + Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:25 -0700 (PDT) +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Sender: chm.duquesne@gmail.com +Received: by 10.64.24.9 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:11:05 -0700 (PDT) +In-Reply-To: + +References: + + <20120811094635.GY28321@pub.cz.oracle.com> <874no613ms.fsf@flamingspork.com> + <20120814160442.GO28321@pub.cz.oracle.com> + + <20120814165044.GP28321@pub.cz.oracle.com> + +From: Christophe-Marie Duquesne +Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:11:05 +0200 +X-Google-Sender-Auth: PR9CzvbxV2WzvReahivhyTA0hCM +Message-ID: + +Subject: Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir) +To: Ciprian Dorin Craciun +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +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: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:11:30 -0000 + +On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun + wrote: +> I proposed -- better said queried if possible or at least wanted +> -- to have an internal interface (SPI) that any mail store would have +> to implement in order to be indexed and used by notmuch. I guess the +> interface would be quite lightweight, and would need just the +> following: +> * open store; +> * create a cursor iterating through all the emails, yielding only the keys; +> * read the envelope (as a byte blob) of a particular key; (used +> only for displaying thread lists, etc.;) +> * read the body (as a byte blob) of a particular key; +> * maybe create a cursor iterating over all those emails that have +> changed since a particular timestamp; + +Someone wrote a fork of offlineimap to store mail in couchdb [1]. The +same couchdb can be mounted with fuse as a maildir [2] for mutt. +According to the author [3], the fuse interface is read only. Assuming +your proposal was implemented, one could complete this work with an +interface to couchdb for offlineimap and get all the features +previously requested. + +[1]: https://github.com/theodoreb/offlineimap +[2]: https://github.com/theodoreb/couchdb-maildir-fuse +[3]: http://theodoreb.net/resume -- 2.26.2