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

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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.

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?

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