I've tried using 'notmuch insert' with mutt-kz, the mutt fork that talks to the notmuch database. Both keep trying to grab the write lock at the same time.
I tag a mail in mutt-kz and it writes the new tag to the database, at the same time a new mail is coming in. Either 'notmuch insert' has the lock and my mail client pauses while it retries or notmuch-insert isn't able to get the write lock and just saves the mail to the maildir and it doesn't get added until I later run 'notmuch new'. I guess many people here are using the Emacs client and the problem is partly avoided because there is a separate thread in the background trying to grab the write lock and save tag changes. Is that correct? I wonder if the solution is real time search? xapian can search in multiple databases. New mails and tag changes can be written to a new database, there could be one database for inserting new mails and another for changes to the tags on existing mails. Then there are no problems with write locks. These databases will be much smaller, so the writes should be faster. There can be a process that runs once a day to merge the databases. FastMail have implemented real time search for email with xapian. Blog post: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/01/email-search-system/ Implementation: https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail Is there any enthusiasm for adding real time search to notmuch? -- Edward. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
