From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86611 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: myglc2 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: notmuch is limited to a single local mail store, right? Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:36:01 -0500 Message-ID: <87bn8n1sdq.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452825537 13944 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2016 02:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:38:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34838@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 15 03:38:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuHg-0007tw-So for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:38:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuH3-000398-9L; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:38:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuH0-00038f-Bz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:37:58 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuGz-00063l-Jn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:37:58 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuGx-0005Tv-HW for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:37:55 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aJuGv-0007LQ-U7 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:37:54 +0100 Original-Received: from c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.167.118.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from myglc2 by c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:37:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:84ViYdV7zW4wD7ZBJ0LtDzU/Y7g= X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86611 Archived-At: After more flailing than I care to admit I have notmuch working with nnir so that I can do 'G G' on a maildir folder populated/syncronized by, for example, mbsync. Pretty, pretty, pretty nice! In the process of getting this working, I discovered that, to use notmuch, you must first consolidate all your mail under a single directory which also holds the '.nogmuch' index folder. Why? Because (according to the notmuch man page) '.notmuch-config' specifies a single 'database.path' to maildir (as opposed to a list of paths) and 'nnir-notmuch-remove-prefix' is a global variable. I found it confusing that gnus lets you have multiple maildir folders fronted by multiple nnmaildir "servers" but nnir + notmuch can search only one. Or, in other words, 'G G' will work on one maildir group but fail on the others. So, now I'm guessing, "I am probably the only one who thinks multiple maildirs are cool." Anyway, I can work with this but I would like to check, does my understanding sound correct to others? If so, Do you think the gnus doc should clarify the point, and, where/how would I suggest such a change? Many thanks, George