I currently use a little Vala utility that Sebastian Spaeth wrote in order to use what's already stored in the notmuch database as a simple addressbook. It's fast and works extremely well for me.
See the section "Address lookup while composing" at http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/ for links to that and a couple other similar implementations. Maybe one of these suits your needs or could be used as a starting point for the functionality you're trying to implement? Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: notmuch-boun...@notmuchmail.org <notmuch-boun...@notmuchmail.org> To: piutto...@logorroici.org <piutto...@logorroici.org>; notmuch@notmuchmail.org <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> Sent: Wed Jan 11 23:26:42 2012 Subject: Re: Info about notmuch database On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:04:17 +0100, piutto...@logorroici.org wrote: > I like notmuch a lot, so I'm writing a (conceptually) similar software > about addressbook: it will scan all your emails, storing email addresses > in a xapian database (you can think of it as little brother database[1] on > steroids) > The part that I'd like to re-implement is "notmuch new": it seems that > in the xapian db there is not only informations about each mail, but > also the mtime of each directory. My impression is this being "chaotic", > but probably I am just missing the point. Hi. I think this is a neat idea. However, it has be wondering: would it be possible to just extend the notmuch database itself to support this? Could notmuch just index all the email addresses in such a way that they would be easily retrievable? Maybe through an "addresses" sub command or something? Obviously having notmuch handle this functionality natively would get rid of the need to reinvent a lot of the stuff you're trying to reinvent now (such as "notmuch new"). jamie. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
