On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:04:17 +0100, piuttosto at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20120111/f55ae6d5/attachment-0001.pgp>