Re: keeping tags in sync with maildirs?

[Ram Raghunathan]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:07:37PM -0600, Selene Scriven wrote:
>  >
>  > I run 'notmuch new' every few minutes from a script which fetches
>  > and sorts mail.  So, that's covered...  I'm just debating whether
>  > it's a good idea for me to abandon my future-proof plaintext
>  > posix-friendly Maildir system or if I'm okay depending on a
>  > less-established database plus an even less-established virtual
>  > filesystem.  It looks great in terms of features, but I know I'll
>  > be kicking myself in ten years if mutt-kz or notmuchfs dies.
>
>  Since notmuch allows you to keep your present directory based
>  organisation while using it's tag based organisation, why choose one
>  over the other?  I would start using notmuch without changing the
>  directory hierarchy.  Things can always go wrong.
>
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>  Suvayu
>
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I agree with Suvayu. You do not have to choose one over the other, and the
two can coexist quite peacefully. At my previous place of employment, I used
both folders and tags so that whenever I accessed my mail through the
company
web interface, I still had some sense of organization.

Regards,
Ram Raghunathan