Re: [PATCH 2/2] nnir.el: New `notmuch' backend.

[Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>]

Hi all,

After using gnus with offlineimap to have all mails also local and then
running notmuch with the data, I figured some oddities in
offlineimap. So I moved to nnimap from gnus and have no local mail
storage anymore. This works pretty nice. The only drawback is that some
mailboxes are stored with _huge_ mails and it is a pain in the a** to
wait while retrieving the mails from the IMAP server. I solved this by
putting those mail in the agent with '*'. Care has to be taken while
moving such mails to another mailbox as you need to remove such mails
from the agent before moving. But that's ok to me (although a var
setting to automate this would be welcome and probably not to hard to
hack).

One remaining issue is searching the mailboxes through the IMAP
server. It works, but it is slow due to the slowness of the IMAP
server. So my wish would be to have a _local_ index of the distant mail
on the IMAP server, without having a local cache of all the mails.

Probably it would be preferable to have a separate process running a
IMAP client which would read all new mails and index them locally. If
anyone knows of such a software, please tell me!

Best
-- 
erik