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From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
To: Krzysztof Ilowiecki <k@ilowiecki.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [alot] Introducing myself, asking various questions
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:59:28 +0100, Krzysztof Ilowiecki <k@ilowiecki.com> wrote:
> I understand synchronisation across machines and with IMAP is something
> of an issue so far. How bad would it be to use git for that - and for
> 'undo'? It would appear some people use git+maildir even instead of
> IMAP, but I guess the notmuch's database may be completely
> unsuitable...

I use git+maildir to sync my mails, and use notmuch dump+restore to sync
my tags. But currently, the tag syncing I do manually, mostly when I go
out-of-town with my laptop, since it still seems to expensive to do it
regularly (>1 day).

In particular, I don't sync the notmuch db itself, at all.

  Tom