From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: Save filenames for files detected as "not an email file" in the database.
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hazo6bz4.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120121181307.GI16740@mit.edu>
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:13:07 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Quoth Tomi Ollila on Jan 21 at 11:48 am:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:27 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrot> >
> > > -large so the detection could be potentially slow). 2. A "notmuch
> > > -search" syntax could be added to allow the user to find these files,
> > > -(and perhaps delete them or move them away as appropriate).
> > > +Add a "notmuch search" syntax to allow uses to find files recorded as
> > > +non-emails in the database (and perhaps delete them or move them away
> > > +as appropriate).
> >
> > Could these messages be tagged with some fixed tag -- we already have
> > 'signed' and 'attachment' tag. maybe 'nonemail' (or something) could
> > be used for these messages ?
>
> They aren't actually messages. Messages have a lot of basic metadata
> that non-email files don't have, so I went with distinct types of
> documents, figuring that would be much less disruptive than having to
> deal with message objects that don't support most message methods.
> For example, if there were a tag (or any general way to query this),
> it's unclear what the output of
> notmuch search --output=summary tag:nonemail
> would be.
yes, I started to think all these issues *after* sending that email.
bunch on extra if's to the code and so on; better think something
else...
> This isn't necessarily the right approach, but if non-emails *are*
> represented as messages, I'm not sure what to do with things like
> notmuch_message_get_message_id and notmuch_message_get_thread_id or
> how to maintain backwards compatibility for callers that don't expect
> queries to return non-emails.
so true.
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-21 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 22:00 [PATCH] lib: Save filenames for files detected as "not an email file" in the database Austin Clements
2012-01-21 9:48 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-21 18:13 ` Austin Clements
2012-01-21 20:23 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2012-01-21 21:16 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-01-21 23:00 ` Jani Nikula
2012-01-21 23:49 ` Austin Clements
2012-01-22 12:19 ` Jani Nikula
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