Handling of symlinked maildirs?

[Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

Im sorting my mailing lists with generic maildrop rules like this one:

    if (/^List-Id:.*<debian-(.*)\.lists.debian.org>/)
        to Maildir/.debian.$MATCH1/

However, I'm subscribed to a *lot* of mailing lists and in order to keep 
my folder view sane I use symlinks to conflate some of them, e.g. 

.debian.devel-announce -> .debian.devel

This works well since mutt simply ignores the symlink(s) so I don't even 
need to exclude them in the config, but it seems that notmuch does index 
each of the symlinks as a separate folder[1].

Does it make sense to have this configurable or even completely exclude 
the symlinks?

On a somewhat related note, unless I'm missing something, notmuch is 
currently indexing only a few header fields, not including List-Id, and 
there is no way to add custom fields. Am I correct?

The reason I'm asking is that in theory one could completely drop any 
sorting (just drop all mail in one folder) and use something like 
'list-id: debian-devel' instead.

Yes, I'm aware that one could work around it by using To:/Cc:, but I'd 
like to distinguish between messages received via the mailing list or 
directly to my private address, otherwise I'd be using Gmail for 
everything anyway :)

[1] this also causes mutt-notmuch to generate a lot of errors when it 
tries to symlink the same message twice to the cache maildir.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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