Re: FastMail uses xapian for real time search, can we do the same?

2016-03-24 Thread David Bremner
Edward Betts writes: > > Is there any enthusiasm for adding real time search to notmuch? It sounds interesting. I do wonder if just better (read, any) retry handling might give most of the user benefits with fewer moving parts. I think the real reason that the locking

FastMail uses xapian for real time search, can we do the same?

2016-03-24 Thread Edward Betts
I've tried using 'notmuch insert' with mutt-kz, the mutt fork that talks to the notmuch database. Both keep trying to grab the write lock at the same time. I tag a mail in mutt-kz and it writes the new tag to the database, at the same time a new mail is coming in. Either 'notmuch insert' has the