From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Notmuch: An emacs interface for fast global search and tagging of email Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:03 +0100 Message-ID: <7A89F1FA-6DCC-43BE-8937-6715706B1CBC@gmail.com> References: <87d43gqf1t.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <857929.5376.qm@web28310.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAt7b-0003oQ-8k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:31 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAt7W-0003nR-Hc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37943 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAt7V-0003nB-Tz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:25 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.145]:7754) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAt7V-0000Bu-Eu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:35:25 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so381386eyw.2 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:35:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jan Janak Cc: Carl Worth , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 > wrote: >> --- Mer 18/11/09, Carl Worth 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten