Re: notmuch and public-inbox

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My workflow with notmuch is near to perfect, however, the only pain
> point I have is fetching all the mail of a particular mailing list.
> 
> To do this efficiently public-inbox seems ideal, however, when
> searching information to link notmuch to public-inbox I don't find
> anything of value. In fact, I can't find an URL of a public-inbox
> repository of the notmuch mailing list.

Kyle maintains an unofficial mirror at https://yhetil.org/notmuch

There's no real relationship between them aside from they both
use Xapian (and I learned Xapian from reading the notmuch source).

> Am I missing something or has nobody really worked on linking these two
> tools? Seems like an obvious area of opportunity.

I think W. Trevor King (Cc-ed) also started looking something
many years ago, but I'm not sure if anything became of it.

I never had the interest in using notmuch since Maildirs are a
non-starter with millions of messages with current FSes/OSes.
mairix + gzipped mboxes mostly works for me, (though mairix
indexing is silly expensive[1])


[1] also, there's a footnote about something on the git list
    which wouldn't be appropriate to discuss here on the
    notmuch list.