On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:03 +0100, Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> this sounds interesting, but I'd like to know:
> what is the difference with, for example mh-search, or mairix?
I'm not familiar with mh-search, so I can't comment there.
As for mairix, I think a big improvement that notmuch has is its search
syntax, (including phrase-based searching). With notmuch searches look
like this:
notmuch search from:carsten.dominik and mairix
notmuch search subject:"emacs interface" and "Carl Worth"
notmuch search tag:important
Of course, that all falls out almost entirely due to just being based on
Xapian.
Mairix has the interesting mode of being able to deliver search results
as a maildir of symlinks. We might add something like that to notmuch.
Some things that notmuch has that mairix doesn't and that aren't related
just to general Xapian features:
* A "notmuch show" command that does proper threading/nesting of
messages.
* The ability to add/remove arbitrary tags to any message and use them
in search terms later.
* An emacs interface to display search results, quickly filter search
results by adding a term, display a thread from the search-results
view, start composing a reply from a thread view, etc.
I haven't compared performance and scalability of mairix and notmuch.
And all of the above is just from my own recollection of using mairix
for a few months so I may have gotten some details wrong.
-Carl
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