Here's a little idea in case someone wants to write some code before I get around to it.
Two current problems: 1. You can't read mail (updating tags, etc.) at the same time new mail is being incorporated to the database. So if you have "notmuch new" as a cron job, then you will sometimes see "failed to obtain write lock" in emacs. 2. Lots of people want to interact with a notmuch database on a remote server, for obvious reasons. A simple solution would be a notmuch daemon that can accept commands on stdin, (in basically the exact same form as the current notmuch command-line interface). If the daemon does the job of periodically incorporating new mail, then the only command necessary to solve (1) above would be the tag command. But with the other commands in place, (such as search and show), then this could operate over ssh and all that would be necessary is one additional command not in the current command line, (for "give me this file"). And then the client could just maintain a local cache of mail files as needed. So that might be a nice project for somebody, and would likely be very useful for many people. -Carl
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