Archiveopteryx

Posted Mar 18, 2010 12:40 UTC (Thu) by pohly (guest, #6319)
Parent article: Archiveopteryx

http://notmuchmail.org/ by Carl Worth and others is another candidate. It is based on the idea of indexing mails with Xapian, then doing all of the normal operations via tagging and fast searches.

Actually receiving and sending mail has to be handled separately. There's a command line and Emacs interface. It is clearly not something for normal users, but looks promising.

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Notmuch

Posted Mar 18, 2010 13:37 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (3 responses)

Notmuch looks very interesting; I suspect it's the mail system of my future. It's not a server-side solution, though. It requires local storage of all email and isn't (yet) well suited to those of use who, say, want to deal with our mail from our phones occasionally. That said, there will be a notmuch article here sooner or later.

Notmuch

Posted Mar 18, 2010 16:21 UTC (Thu) by wingo (guest, #26929) [Link]

I eagerly await this article. I suspect it will be my future mail too, but haven't invested the time to switch.

I'll probably stay with offlineimap though, provided I can get the tags to mirror somehow.

Notmuch

Posted Mar 18, 2010 16:23 UTC (Thu) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]

I use something that looks similar to NotMuch, which you may wish to compare it against, too: mairix... For my very simple needs, I've been happy with mairix...

Notmuch

Posted Mar 19, 2010 7:27 UTC (Fri) by pohly (guest, #6319) [Link]

In a recent presentation of notmuch, Carl Worth mentioned that there might be an IMAP server exposing some of search functionality at some point. The full power of notmuch might not be available without IMAP protocol extensions, though.