Re: notmuch is limited to a single local mail store, right?

[myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Actually you can set that variable on individual servers, so each server
> removes its own prefix.

Thanks, you are right. But as you point out below, it is possibly
delusional to do so.

> You still have the problem that notmuch only indexes from a single
> parent directory down, though. Have you already collected all your
> various maildir servers under one parent directory?

Not yet. I am checking my assumptions first. Didn't want to collect them
if I didn't have to.

> Of course, you'll probably still run into errors: searching on one
> server will cause notmuch to return results from *all* servers, then the
> server under point will try to remove its prefix from all the results,
> and... I don't know what will happen then!
>
> E
Right, this is the crux of the problem, and why it seems that, for
practical use, one would want to consolidate mail under a single folder.