Re: notmuch and public-inbox

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 7:05 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
>
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My workflow with notmuch is near to perfect, however, the only pain
> > point I have is fetching all the mail of a particular mailing list.
> >
> > To do this efficiently public-inbox seems ideal, however, when
> > searching information to link notmuch to public-inbox I don't find
> > anything of value. In fact, I can't find an URL of a public-inbox
> > repository of the notmuch mailing list.
>
> Kyle maintains an unofficial mirror at https://yhetil.org/notmuch

Nice. Who is Kyle?

> There's no real relationship between them aside from they both
> use Xapian (and I learned Xapian from reading the notmuch source).

I don't mean sharing the Xapian database (although that could be
interesting for the future). I'm talking about as a client of
public-inbox, not as a server.

I mean doing a git clone for a public-inbox repository and notmuch
indexing that repository.

> > Am I missing something or has nobody really worked on linking these two
> > tools? Seems like an obvious area of opportunity.
>
> I think W. Trevor King (Cc-ed) also started looking something
> many years ago, but I'm not sure if anything became of it.
>
> I never had the interest in using notmuch since Maildirs are a
> non-starter with millions of messages with current FSes/OSes.
> mairix + gzipped mboxes mostly works for me, (though mairix
> indexing is silly expensive[1])

If notmuch was patched to support the public-inbox format--as an
alternative to Maildir--then users of public-inbox could clone a
repository, and use notmuch to index that.

I don't see how that could be difficult. But then again, I haven't
looked at the Maildir code.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras