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 DF120431E84 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:24 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] 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 J6zzTbaFjPu5 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-ww0-f45.google.com (mail-ww0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2AC8D431FB6 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by wgbdt12 with SMTP id dt12so4292846wgb.2 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.93.132 with SMTP id cu4mr7537969wib.9.1327452503013; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([109.131.95.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bj10sm21556267wib.9.2012.01.24.16.48.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:22 -0800 (PST) From: Pieter Praet To: Tomi Ollila , David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Configuration file option to exclude files/directories In-Reply-To: References: <1315949524-4948-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> <87fwgwndob.fsf@zancas.localnet> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11+113~g5a6e67e (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:46:32 +0100 Message-ID: <8762g0sj6f.fsf@praet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlLnya95HgibTl6UHK7EYCxFKvYl6ja/xVd4xv2bJt8aE395U1L4cs8uIFgAvFuHES0GFiX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:48:25 -0000 On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:05:50 +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:51:32 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:32:01 +0300, tomi.ollila@iki.fi wrote: > > > This patch set adds a configuration option 'database.exclude'; a list of > > > files/directories to be excluded when doing 'notmuch new' operation. > > > > Hi All; > > > > I could see idea of excluding spam and trash folders from indexing being > > useful, but this has been sitting in the list for a few months without > > comment. Does that mean no-one but Tomi thinks the functionality is > > interesting? Or it just slipped by? > > Well, basically due to my comments in > id:"1315949524-4948-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi" (and so far little > interest to this patch series) I have 'drafts' and 'spam' directories > elsewhere. > > If there is renewed interests with real use cases I'm interested to make > this work more complete (now that there is change to get patches in ;) > -- and then move my drafts and spam under database.path too. > Please do! The desire to be able to exclude certain files/folders has been expressed many times in the past [1], and once again a mere 2 days ago [2]. I'm currently kicking myself for somehow having missed this thread... Many thanks in advance! > I'll mark the current patches as 'notmuch::wip' for the time being. > > > > > d > > > > Tomi > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch Peace -- Pieter [1] id:"AANLkTikddX=fYiDmnN2Jx3ERcJndw=80+5_07=M45MQ=@mail.gmail.com" [2] id:"20120122113212.GA7084@X200"