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On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:14:33 +0100
VA <dev+notmuch@indigo.re> wrote:

> Le 17/02/2019 =C3=A0 20:35, Matt Armstrong a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> > As far as the risk of property name collisions, perhaps encourage an
> > x-<project>- prefix convention for all properties not registered with
> > the notmuch project?  That seems to have served well enough for email
> > headers. =20
>=20
> I'm interested in the answer. I'm writing a graphical MUA (alpha stage)=20
> and am using property "x-lierre-excerpt" to store a pure-text excerpt of=
=20
> each email, so it can be displayed in the messages list without having=20
> to open the whole email file.

I'm with the others; writing a GUI client [0] I found that querying would b=
e much more aligned with what I need if I could search arbitrary data (head=
ers or notes).

Cheers,
rhn

[0] https://gitlab.com/rhn_mk1/quemail/