From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search on emacs-devel?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:23:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsnqlq85.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvh786ixy1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Gotcha. I was thinking this would be a git interface to whatever mail
>> store happened to be out there in the wild, but you're describing
>> something where it's the IMAP server that interfaces with "the wild",
>> and git is just the internal store? I guess I don't see a major
>> advantage to just using IMAP directly...
>
> The idea is that the use of IMAP would be a transient artifact and
> ditched at some point when the MTA can deliver directly to your
> MailGit mailbox.
>
> Then instead of fetching mail via IMAP and being f**ed when you're
> offline, you "git pull" to quickly and efficiently get a complete local
> copy of your mailbox (and `git push` to send back up the information
> about which message you've read/deleted, the tags you've added, or
> whether you moved some messages to other folders, ...).
>
> There are many tricky parts, tho:
> - Find a good layout to avoid conflicts during `git merge`.
> - Figure out a way to let Git forget old mail you really want deleted.
> - Write a bidi-gateway with something like IMAP so you can start using
> it before reaching the brave new world where your favorite email
> provider support MailGit format mailboxes.
Okay! Makes sense, and there are some interesting things to think about
there. MailGit might sit nicely next to BuGit in the Monnierware
multiverse :) I'd be happy to spitball this and contribute some code as
things progress.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-09 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-09 18:51 How to search on emacs-devel? Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 18:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 19:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 22:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 22:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2022-03-10 5:49 ` Kyle Meyer
2022-03-10 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-10 17:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-10 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-10 18:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-10 17:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-08 15:09 dalanicolai
2022-03-08 15:17 ` dalanicolai
2022-03-08 15:57 ` andrés ramírez
2022-03-08 16:06 ` dalanicolai
2022-03-08 17:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-08 18:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 13:34 ` Robert Pluim
2022-03-09 15:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-09 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 17:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-10 15:50 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-03-10 16:46 ` Felix Dietrich
2022-03-09 11:41 ` dalanicolai
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