From: "Bryant, Daniel B." <Dan.Bryant@jhuapl.edu>
To: "'notmuch@notmuchmail.org'" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>,
"'piuttosto@logorroici.org'" <piuttosto@logorroici.org>
Subject: Re: Info about notmuch database
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:48:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24CAA033F4DBCD4DB53CBFB11AEF037C0F2A166805@aplesrepublic.dom1.jhuapl.edu> (raw)
I currently use a little Vala utility that Sebastian Spaeth wrote in order to use what's already stored in the notmuch database as a simple addressbook. It's fast and works extremely well for me.
See the section "Address lookup while composing" at http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/ for links to that and a couple other similar implementations.
Maybe one of these suits your needs or could be used as a starting point for the functionality you're trying to implement?
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org <notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org>
To: piuttosto@logorroici.org <piuttosto@logorroici.org>; notmuch@notmuchmail.org <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Sent: Wed Jan 11 23:26:42 2012
Subject: Re: Info about notmuch database
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:04:17 +0100, piuttosto@logorroici.org wrote:
> I like notmuch a lot, so I'm writing a (conceptually) similar software
> about addressbook: it will scan all your emails, storing email addresses
> in a xapian database (you can think of it as little brother database[1] on
> steroids)
> The part that I'd like to re-implement is "notmuch new": it seems that
> in the xapian db there is not only informations about each mail, but
> also the mtime of each directory. My impression is this being "chaotic",
> but probably I am just missing the point.
Hi. I think this is a neat idea. However, it has be wondering: would
it be possible to just extend the notmuch database itself to support
this? Could notmuch just index all the email addresses in such a way
that they would be easily retrievable? Maybe through an "addresses" sub
command or something? Obviously having notmuch handle this
functionality natively would get rid of the need to reinvent a lot of
the stuff you're trying to reinvent now (such as "notmuch new").
jamie.
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 4:48 Bryant, Daniel B. [this message]
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2012-01-04 15:49 Info about notmuch database boyska
2012-01-05 15:04 ` Thomas Jost
2012-01-05 15:38 ` boyska
2012-01-05 16:35 ` Thomas Jost
2012-01-07 11:48 ` boyska
2012-01-08 12:59 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2012-01-08 14:34 ` Thomas Jost
2012-01-02 16:04 piuttosto
2012-01-12 4:26 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
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