From: Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: What's so great about notmuch?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:00:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a0lcpui.fsf@exys.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrxz4v5a.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:08:49 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing about notmuch?
It's the only email index that respects unix ideas, and hence the only
usable to me. It doesn't do _everything_ but limits itself to indexing,
while doing a great job at that. That's how software is supposed to work.
Of course you could argue notmuch comes with notmuch.el, but i'd argue
this is a seperate project.
> What about notmuch makes it distinctive compared to other email
> programs?
See above. All other email indexers are built into large complex gui
crap that doesnt make any sense to me. I'm just not a Microsoft Windows fan.
Probably that would make me a "geek".
> If someone were to implement a new email system from scratch, but
> capturing the "ideas" of notmuch, what would it have to have?
The same design. It would probably only differ in technical details like language.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-28 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 20:08 What's so great about notmuch? Carl Worth
2010-02-27 9:08 ` James Westby
2010-02-27 11:41 ` martin f krafft
2010-02-27 16:46 ` racin
2010-02-28 16:00 ` Arvid Picciani [this message]
2010-03-01 11:30 ` Michal Sojka
2010-03-01 13:39 ` Sebastian Spaeth
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