also sprach Jameson Rollins <[email protected]> [2010.01.17.0949 +1300]: > I would like to put forth here a proposal for a couple of changes > to notmuch that I believe will considerably streamline message > handling and new message flow through notmuch. Notmuch is still > new and I believe it hasn't quite figured out the best way to > handle message flow in the new mail handling paradigm that it is > working. This is a proposal to fix that. > > I believe that most people are syncing their mail from remote IMAP or > POP servers to local maildirs (via offlineimap for instance), and that > most people's IMAP servers have limited storage capacity. This > practically means that people can not keep all of their mail in a > single directory. However, notmuch currently basically assumes that > this is what is happening. In order to keep synced maildirs from > growing out of hand, messages need to be either deleted or moved out > of the "inbox" where they initially show up.
We should keep this in mind when designing an object store, whether or not that's based on Git. If we use Git, then a local branch is all we really need to support this. \o/ -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ above all, we should not wish to divest our existence of its rich ambiguity. --friedrich nietzsche spamtraps: [email protected]
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