From: "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
To: Notmuch development list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: What's so great about notmuch?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:39:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpf817rc.fsf@SSpaeth.de> (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 is simple and fast. It lets me use emacs as MUA which I tried
before. But I always gave up on GNUS.
> What about notmuch makes it distinctive compared to other email
> programs?
Did I mention fast? Also it brings me the convenience of "spotlight"
searching all your mails in OS X to Linux.
> If someone were to implement a new email system from scratch, but
> capturing the "ideas" of notmuch, what would it have to have?
- "virtual folders" aka tags
- a library that can be used by 3rd party UIs
- a huge backlog of uncommited submissions ;) (SCNR)
- I think thunderbird is actually getting closer to notmuch in version 3.
Sebastian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 15:01 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
2010-03-01 11:30 ` Michal Sojka
2010-03-01 13:39 ` Sebastian Spaeth [this message]
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