Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:20:59 +0100 From: Adrian Perez de Castro To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Message-ID: <20091118002059.067214ed@hikari> Organization: Igalia X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [notmuch] Introducing myself X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1167731900==" Sender: notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org Errors-To: notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org --===============1167731900== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ayZz9m37AOMROJCyUudvXvZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --Sig_/ayZz9m37AOMROJCyUudvXvZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Adrian Perez de Castro Igalia - Free Software Engineering --Sig_/ayZz9m37AOMROJCyUudvXvZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksDL+AACgkQkcVZ2+TJEjtsuQCfXmilW8WpMQHCnwwJjRE1PWZy oFAAn3MmXC5sW7MvCFjs7ks6U16zgMEg =eL9p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ayZz9m37AOMROJCyUudvXvZ-- --===============1167731900== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch --===============1167731900==--