On 07Apr16 19:53 +0200, Andreas wrote: > Am 07.04.2016 um 01:19 schrieb Cameron Simpson: > > Usually when I reach for notmuch it is because I have mismanaged my > > folders. Hmm, that message about blah isn't there - where is it?
Here, just a quick glimpse into my experience. I discovered an easy way of life, at the time I stopped to sort my mails into folders - either manually or automatically. For me it was just one big source of failures. Mails could sometimes be sorted into multiple folders, so where should I look to find that one again? And what the heck is the sent-folder for? It just rips threads apart. This made me change completely my email administration approx a decade ago. Now, I just use two maildirs. inbox and trash. Where trash is more the entire mail history and inbox a kind of todo or active threads. Mails I sent are also put into inbox, thus I can follow threaded discussions much better. To find emails by searching, I begun to use mutt's powerfull limit functionality on the trash. This became quite slow by time and growing mbox. Afer changing to maildir, I also got interested in mail indexers (started with mairix, now maildir-utils) which let me easily and dynamically switch to the context I desire. In addition to that, since using maildir-utils, I use `mu cfind` as my email address book via query_command. So there is no need to add mailaddresses to the alias file any more. By now I cannot imagine any solution which is more flexible (for me). Comments welcome! > Me too and while it does find the message it does not tell me /where/ it > is. How do you do this? I do not precisely know about notmuch, but the indexers I know about they create links to the original mail in a temporary maildir folder. At least follow those links. Actually, to find the location of a mail file grepmail is a nice tool, which I used long time ago. Cheers, -- Bastian
