Hi Felipe > I'm moving from mbsync to public-inbox and I find there aren't many tools to > make it work with notmuch.
Looking at that, too. > I gave a try to notmuch-lore [1] but I found it too slow and had a couple of > issues. > > So I wrote my own script to convert public-inbox mailing lists to Maildir > format: notmuch-tools/inbox-update [2]. > > It's much faster at the initial clone, it deals with deleted mails, and YAML > is > a much better configuration format. Looking at both scripts: Is the speed-up mainly due to `git cat-file` vs. `git show`? > Also, you can configure which epochs you want to fetch (notmuch-lore fetches > all of them). > > One thing it doesn't yet do is trim the repository once the mails have been > converted, but that's probably easy to add later on. What kind of trimming are you thinking about here? Partial history? I guess this shows that public-inbox's repo format is simply not the best choice for the purpose of mail readers. It is optimised for other uses, and I always wondered why they use a non-bare repo at all. That single file path m at the root creates absolutely meaningless diffs. And the commit message doubles the info which is present in the blob. notes-ref could have served better for inspiration of public-inbox. (Barking up the wrong tree, I know.) There are even tools in the public-inbox eco system which feed that info into a xapian db, though not notmuch-like, as if notmuch hadn't existed already. What I'm dreaming of is a notmuch "storage backend" which is git object db based rather than maildir based, and compatible with public-inbox (at least with the use case, i.e. v3 or v4...). I mean - why do we need a checkout of basically immutable files which are stored in blobs already, just so that notmuch can index them? We need them for the MUAs, I know, and we would need a solution for them, too. Or simply a tree in public-inbox which allows clients to use a mere checkout ... Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
