Re: Notmuch: An emacs interface for fast global search and tagging of email

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi,

this sounds interesting, but I'd like to know:
what is the difference with, for example mh-search, or mairix?

- Carsten

On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Jan Janak wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi
> <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> wrote:
>> --- Mer 18/11/09, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> ha scritto:
>>> The idea is that maybe org-mode users would like to be able
>>> to reference
>>> email messages for todo items, etc. and that perhaps
>>> integrating with notmuch would make sense.
>>
>> well in Org-mode is it already possible to have links
>> to "mails" e.g.:
>>
>>     mailto:adent@galaxy.net                   Mail link
>>     vm:folder                                 VM folder link
>>     vm:folder#id                              VM message link
>>     vm://myself@some.where.org/folder#id      VM on remote machine
>>     wl:folder                                 WANDERLUST folder link
>>     wl:folder#id                              WANDERLUST message link
>>     mhe:folder                                MH-E folder link
>>     mhe:folder#id                             MH-E message link
>>     rmail:folder                              RMAIL folder link
>>     rmail:folder#id                           RMAIL message link
>>     gnus:group                                Gnus group link
>>     gnus:group#id                             Gnus article link
>> (Manual: 4.3 External links)
>
> Notmuch goes beyond what the links above can do. Having your mail
> indexed with notmuch is kind of like having your own local copy of
> gmail with its powerful search options.
>
> If integrated properly with org-mode, we could refer to one particular
> message using its message-id (regardless of the folder/directory it is
> in), we could refer to whole threads. And when new messages in the
> thread arrive, notmuch updates the thread automatically and you will
> see everything when you activate the link.
>
> Another interesting possibility would be adding support for notmuch
> search strings to org-mode, so that you could do something like:
> "notmuch:foo bar" and when you activate the link, a list of messages
> that contain the text would show up in a notmuch buffer.
>
> And so on. Notmuch is currently in very early stage, but I think it
> has the potential to become a perfect complement for org-mode.
>
> With support for full-text search in local email archives, org-mode
> will be even harder to beat than it is now ;).
>
>> By the way, does  notmuch depend on Xapian?
>
> Yes.
>
>  -- Jan
>
>
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- Carsten