From: "Adrian Perez de Castro" To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:20:59 +0100 Subject: [notmuch] Introducing myself Message-ID: <20091118002059.067214ed@hikari> Hello to all, I have just heard about Not Much today in some random Linux-related news site (LWN?), my name is Adrian Perez and I work as systems administrator (although I can do some code as well :P). I have always thought that the ideas behind Sup were great, but after some time using it, I got tired of the oddities that it has. I also do not like doing things like having to install Ruby just for reading and sorting mails. Some time ago I thought about doing something like Not Much and in fact I played a bit with the Python+Xapian and the Python+Whoosh combinations, because I find relaxing to code things in Python when I am not working and also it is installed by default on most distribution. I got to have some mailboxes indexed and basic searching working a couple of months ago. Lately I have been very busy and had no time for coding, and them... boom! Not Much appears -- and it is almost exactly what I was trying to do, but faster. I have been playing a bit with Not Much today, and I think it has potential. Also, I would like to share one idea I had in mind, that you might find interesting: One thing I have found very annoying is having to re-tag my mail when the indexes get b0rked (it happened a couple of times to me while using Sup), so I was planning to mails as read/unread and adding the tags not just to the index, but to the mail text itself, e.g. by adding a "X-Tags" header field or by reusing the "Keywords" one. This way, the index could be totally recreated by re-reading the mail directories, and this would also allow to a tools like OfflineIMAP [1] to get the mails into a local maildir, tagging and indexing the mails with the e-mail reader and then syncing back the messages with the "X-Tags" header to the IMAP server. This would allow to use the mail reader from a different computer and still have everything tagged finely. Best regards, --- [1] http://software.complete.org/software/projects/show/offlineimap -- Adrian Perez de Castro Igalia - Free Software Engineering -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: