From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D26141ED76 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.3 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JZ-lKtIoGQFE for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (market.scs.stanford.edu [171.66.3.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCC7241ED71 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (localhost.scs.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s3BI21YI017924; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dm@localhost) by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s3BI218D017688; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: market.scs.stanford.edu: dm set sender to return-38na78y6wrihpayyrtsewvtyin@ta.scs.stanford.edu using -f From: David Mazieres To: David Bremner , Brian Sniffen , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Synchronization success stories? In-Reply-To: <87d2go5cyr.fsf@zancas.localnet> References: <87d2go5cyr.fsf@zancas.localnet> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:01 -0700 Message-ID: <8738hj3fty.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Mazieres expires 2014-07-10 PDT List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:02:12 -0000 David Bremner writes: > Brian Sniffen writes: > >> I'm thrilled by using notmuch to manage my mail. Low-latency search is >> very important to me. But I use computers in a couple of >> places---several of which are laptops. Has anyone stories to share of >> successful multi-computer notmuch sync, for a corpus of a >> quarter-million messages or so? > > I use syncmaildir to sync the actual messages, and a copy of the output > of "notmuch dump" in git to sync the metadata. > > It works OK. A bit slow; depends how often you need to fetch new mail. If you want to see my solution, it is here: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/muchsync-0.tar.gz I'm a little embarrassed by this code, as I just started to test it a week ago then instantly became completely dependent on it. I will probably change the name (from muchsync to syncmuch) and the database format before releasing. But if you feel like beta-testing and giving me feedback, have a look. Beware that if you have been using notmuch dump, you may become instantly hooked on my solution... David