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

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

Well,

I think it would be useful to get support for this in Org-mode, so if  
someone would like to write the interface - please go ahead.

- Carsten

On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Carl Worth wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:03 +0100, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> this sounds interesting, but I'd like to know:
>> what is the difference with, for example mh-search, or mairix?
>
> I'm not familiar with mh-search, so I can't comment there.
>
> As for mairix, I think a big improvement that notmuch has is its  
> search
> syntax, (including phrase-based searching). With notmuch searches look
> like this:
>
>        notmuch search from:carsten.dominik and mairix
>        notmuch search subject:"emacs interface" and "Carl Worth"
>        notmuch search tag:important
>
> Of course, that all falls out almost entirely due to just being  
> based on
> Xapian.
>
> Mairix has the interesting mode of being able to deliver search  
> results
> as a maildir of symlinks. We might add something like that to notmuch.
>
> Some things that notmuch has that mairix doesn't and that aren't  
> related
> just to general Xapian features:
>
>  * A "notmuch show" command that does proper threading/nesting of
>    messages.
>
>  * The ability to add/remove arbitrary tags to any message and use  
> them
>    in search terms later.
>
>  * An emacs interface to display search results, quickly filter search
>    results by adding a term, display a thread from the search-results
>    view, start composing a reply from a thread view, etc.
>
> I haven't compared performance and scalability of mairix and notmuch.
> And all of the above is just from my own recollection of using mairix
> for a few months so I may have gotten some details wrong.
>
> -Carl

- Carsten