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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:41:47 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: lei up without creating xapian database
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"Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> wrote:
> I currently use notmuch to manage my emails, and I already have a xapian
> index created for all the emails on my system. I want to switch to using
> lei to download emails from lore.kernel.org based on query patterns, and
> I want to index these emails with notmuch. However, I noticed that lei
> also creates an index for these emails, which is not necessary for my
> workflow. Is there a way to use lei to download emails to maildir from a
> public-inbox server without creating the xapian index on the local disk?

Not yet, unfortunately.  I have plans to make lei independent of
Xapian (SQLite will still be necessary), but it hasn't been a
priority this year, maybe next year...

The (hopefully) coming lei FUSE3 backend may be helpful for notmuch
users, too, since it'll allow storing compressed/deltafied/deduped
messages in git w/o eating millions of real inodes.