From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search on emacs-devel?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:12:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh786ixy1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0d2lr9f.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:01:32 -0800")
> 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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-09 22:12 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 [this message]
2022-03-09 22:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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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