On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I just want to say that having notmuch communicate with Gmail is terrible 
>> idea, since this
>> would mean duplicating of jobs that offlineimap and notmuch do.
>
> My sentiments, notmuch is doing realy good what it is doing, and adding gmail 
> / other server
> communication is not the best idea.

And I disagree.

>> I could see some *other* tool, besides notmuch and offlineimap, which 
>> connects to Gmail to
>> fetch the tags, but that would again duplicate a lot of the code from 
>> offlineimap.
>
> I also agree here - offlineimap already has a repository type Gmail, and if 
> gmails imap
> extensions, particularly
> https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/imap_extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels
> is used, it should be not to difficult to read the labels and to store them 
> in e.g. a sqlite
> database for each message id. This could then be written back as well, and 
> only the [GMAIL] folder
> would have to be synchronised, i.e. no duplication.

Not everybody uses offlineimap.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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