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Re: [Orgmode] Notmuch: An emacs interface for fast global search and tag


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Notmuch: An emacs interface for fast global search and tagging of email
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:03 +0100

Hi,

this sounds interesting, but I'd like to know:
what is the difference with, for example mh-search, or mairix?

- Carsten

On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Jan Janak wrote:

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi
<address@hidden> wrote:
--- Mer 18/11/09, Carl Worth <address@hidden> ha scritto:
The idea is that maybe org-mode users would like to be able
to reference
email messages for todo items, etc. and that perhaps
integrating with notmuch would make sense.

well in Org-mode is it already possible to have links
to "mails" e.g.:

    mailto:address@hidden                   Mail link
    vm:folder                                 VM folder link
    vm:folder#id                              VM message link
    vm://address@hidden/folder#id      VM on remote machine
    wl:folder                                 WANDERLUST folder link
    wl:folder#id                              WANDERLUST message link
    mhe:folder                                MH-E folder link
    mhe:folder#id                             MH-E message link
    rmail:folder                              RMAIL folder link
    rmail:folder#id                           RMAIL message link
    gnus:group                                Gnus group link
    gnus:group#id                             Gnus article link
(Manual: 4.3 External links)

Notmuch goes beyond what the links above can do. Having your mail
indexed with notmuch is kind of like having your own local copy of
gmail with its powerful search options.

If integrated properly with org-mode, we could refer to one particular
message using its message-id (regardless of the folder/directory it is
in), we could refer to whole threads. And when new messages in the
thread arrive, notmuch updates the thread automatically and you will
see everything when you activate the link.

Another interesting possibility would be adding support for notmuch
search strings to org-mode, so that you could do something like:
"notmuch:foo bar" and when you activate the link, a list of messages
that contain the text would show up in a notmuch buffer.

And so on. Notmuch is currently in very early stage, but I think it
has the potential to become a perfect complement for org-mode.

With support for full-text search in local email archives, org-mode
will be even harder to beat than it is now ;).

By the way, does  notmuch depend on Xapian?

Yes.

 -- Jan


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