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