Howdy! Happy mutt-kz user here.
I'm wondering whether any of you thought on going further and using notmuch/xapian as the sole store for mail. Why am I asking this?
Mutt does a bazillion file operations which is insanely slow under OSX; I'm wondering whether could we plug libetpan and feed mail directly to the database, sync the changes back. This would mean we would have all the mutt-kz awesomeness without having to muck with mbsync/offlineimap and having to use double storage space (Maildir + notmuch db).
I'm not asking for anyone to do it, more interested in hearing if this is crazy talk and I'm insane of wanting this :)
Thoughts?
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:40:33PM -0300, Douglas Campos wrote:
Howdy! Happy mutt-kz user here.
I'm wondering whether any of you thought on going further and using notmuch/xapian as the sole store for mail. Why am I asking this?
Mutt does a bazillion file operations which is insanely slow under OSX; I'm wondering whether could we plug libetpan and feed mail directly to the database, sync the changes back. This would mean we would have all the mutt-kz awesomeness without having to muck with mbsync/offlineimap and having to use double storage space (Maildir + notmuch db).
I'm not sure that is possible (notmuch db, without a Maildir). As far as my understanding goes, you can inject a message in the db just fine. However retrieving/display is done by actually getting the file from the mailstore (Maildir). To get your proposal to work, you would need to work out a way to "reconstruct" the whole message from the database only. In theory, this should be possible, but I have no idea how one would proceed.
On top of this, not having a Maildir would mean cli tools will get confused; although this might be okay in principle, but library only notmuch system with broken cli tools would be pretty non-standard.
Hope this helps,
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:26:38AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:40:33PM -0300, Douglas Campos wrote:
Howdy! Happy mutt-kz user here.
I'm wondering whether any of you thought on going further and using notmuch/xapian as the sole store for mail. Why am I asking this?
Mutt does a bazillion file operations which is insanely slow under OSX; I'm wondering whether could we plug libetpan and feed mail directly to the database, sync the changes back. This would mean we would have all the mutt-kz awesomeness without having to muck with mbsync/offlineimap and having to use double storage space (Maildir + notmuch db).
I'm not sure that is possible (notmuch db, without a Maildir). As far as my understanding goes, you can inject a message in the db just fine. However retrieving/display is done by actually getting the file from the mailstore (Maildir). To get your proposal to work, you would need to work out a way to "reconstruct" the whole message from the database only. In theory, this should be possible, but I have no idea how one would proceed.
Yep, a lot of things in mutt depends on on-disk stuff.
On top of this, not having a Maildir would mean cli tools will get confused; although this might be okay in principle, but library only notmuch system with broken cli tools would be pretty non-standard.
For example for me is tool independent storage (maildir) really nice thing as I can use the files (emails) directly from many tools (e.g. git-am).
Karel
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