From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Mazieres expires 2016-06-30 PDT
<mazieres-fmzyazpz6acxdkzys7pkrhp8ve@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Breaking a really long thread
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 09:41:08 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8lci3ob.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twjkopb8.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu>
David Mazieres <dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu> writes:
> Is there any way to break an existing thread (so as to start over with a
> smaller thread), or otherwise to tweak the threading rules so that a
> particular References header gets ignored.
Currently there is no way to do this, as threads are "stateless"
i.e. created on the fly by _notmuch_create_thread based only on
immutable mail data. We'd have to be willing to dump/restore any
threading hints we added to the database, but we're already headed down
that path with the libconfig stuff anyway. Something we _almost_ have
the infrastructure in place for would be to blacklist a particular
reference (e.g. by regex) by storing the blacklist as database
metadata. That would solve your particular problem, although I'm not
sure it it's general enough. Keeping global state for all thread
breaking sounds a bit clunky.
> It's annoyingly slow to open
> a thread with 10,000 messages just to read one SMS. I'm almost tempted
> to mangle the messages on delivery and remove the References header
> before notmuch sees them, but it would be nice to have a cleaner
> solution, as there are other situations in which one might want to
> "reset" a really long thread.
Like this thread ;).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-02 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-26 17:57 v2 of libconfig, date:foo, and named query patches David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 01/13] configure: autodetect xapian-1.3 David Bremner
2016-04-01 9:09 ` Tomi Ollila
2016-04-01 23:29 ` David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 02/13] configure: detect Xapian:FieldProcessor David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 03/13] lib: optionally support single argument date: queries David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 04/13] lib/cli: add library API / CLI for compile time options David Bremner
2016-04-27 17:47 ` Tomi Ollila
2016-04-30 11:53 ` David Bremner
2016-05-01 17:48 ` Tomi Ollila
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 05/13] configure: check directly for xapian compaction API David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 06/13] lib: provide config API David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 07/13] lib: config list iterators David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 08/13] CLI: add print_status_database David Bremner
2016-03-27 20:25 ` [PATCH] nmbug: ignore # comments David Bremner
2016-03-27 20:38 ` W. Trevor King
2016-03-28 7:14 ` Tomi Ollila
2016-03-28 12:33 ` David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 09/13] CLI: add optional config data to dump output David Bremner
2016-03-26 18:13 ` David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 10/13] CLI: optionally restore config data David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 11/13] CLI: add notmuch-config support for named queries David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 12/13] lib: make a global constant for query parser flags David Bremner
2016-03-26 17:57 ` [Patch v2 13/13] lib: add support for named queries David Bremner
2016-04-01 23:57 ` Breaking a really long thread David Mazieres
2016-04-02 12:41 ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-04-02 13:56 ` David Mazieres
2016-04-04 11:07 ` Eric
2016-04-04 13:00 ` Mark Walters
2016-04-04 15:38 ` Eric
2016-04-05 5:28 ` David Mazieres
2016-04-09 11:20 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-04-09 18:55 ` David Bremner
2016-04-09 22:40 ` Mark Walters
2016-04-11 2:05 ` David Bremner
2016-04-11 7:19 ` Mark Walters
2016-04-11 7:39 ` David Edmondson
2016-04-11 9:57 ` David Bremner
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