From: Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: feature request: caching message arrival time
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:02:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhmyrcl3.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muiyhkpy.fsf@fifthhorseman.net>
* Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> Since notmuch actually knows when it recieved the message [...]
Not meaning to complicate things, but Notmuch does not receive messages
at all. ;-) One needs to rely on some software to populate the Maildir
tree (Dovecot LMTP in my case, Postfix or some other MTA for local
delivery in other cases). Any software transporting the raw messages
can, and sometimes must, manipulate the header data, and the order in
which files within the Maildir tree are created is also not determined
by Notmuch.
As an example: My nightly backup script disables local delivery for the
duration of the backup process. Once reactivated, delivery of queued
messages resumes, but it is not guaranteed to happen in the order of
arrival. So even the local MTA, although trusted, might induce issues in
terms of delivery time.
-Ralph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-03 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-01 3:29 feature request: caching message arrival time Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-06-01 14:13 ` David Bremner
2019-06-01 14:19 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-06-01 15:30 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-06-03 8:57 ` Örjan Ekeberg
2019-06-03 13:17 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-06-03 14:02 ` Ralph Seichter [this message]
2019-06-03 22:16 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-06-03 16:02 ` Örjan Ekeberg
2019-06-03 22:21 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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