From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tassilo Horn Subject: Re: Notmuch: An emacs interface for fast global search and tagging of email Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:39:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87hbsrg53h.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87d43gqf1t.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <857929.5376.qm@web28310.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAnZJ-0001Dd-AO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:39:45 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAnZE-0001BW-Ab for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:39:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40878 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAnZE-0001BP-3X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:39:40 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57323) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAnZD-00074Q-Je for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:39:39 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NAnZB-0006ky-Rg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:39:37 +0100 Received: from wlan-203.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.93.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:39:37 +0100 Received: from tassilo by wlan-203.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:39:37 +0100 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jan Janak writes: Hi Jan, >>     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. Hm, currently I use a local dovecot imap server for storing all my mails and use Gnus' nnir to search using the dovecot full text search (it indexes automatically). This works pretty good, but the nnir interface or imap search in general is not so advanced, and possibly I could do better querying with notmuch. Since dovecot runs local, all the mails are local, too, and I could index them with notmuch. But some questions come in mind: 1. Does notmuch require some special mailbox format? I use dovecot's dbox format, which is somehow similar to Maildir (one file per message), but there are some special lines with escape chars like ^A, ^B, ^C. 2. Is there a way to search for an article with notmuch, read id there and then get into Gnus' summary buffer with this article opened, so that I can reply? What I basically need for that was an easy way to extract the message-id and the mail file's path. 3. Does the underlying indexing tool somehow recognize new messages and index them on the fly, so that the index is always up to date? Bye, Tassilo