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2 #List of features people have requested and ideas that people want to keep thinking about
8 Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.
10 When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that
13 When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently
14 displayed message inside the thread.
18 Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.
20 When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that
21 the cursor is on (just like 'd')
23 When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently
24 displayed thread (and not just the message)
26 + Add '???' keybinding
28 Skips current thread without archiving it
30 Right now 'n' gets me to the end of a thread, but not to the
31 beginning of the next thread. 'a' gets you to the next thread,
32 but archives the current one.
34 + Allow different "real names" for the optional email addresses
36 if only one name is configured, use that for all addresses;
37 if other_names are configured, match those with the other_email addresses
42 + Allow a custom location for .notmuch
44 The notmuch index is currently saved in .notmuch under the user's
45 Maildir and there's no configuration option to change that.
47 This is problematic with both tools that sync Maildirs and with IMAP
48 servers that consider .notmuch a Maildir subfolder (e.g. dovecot)
50 A better solution would be to add a configuration option for this so
51 that it can be put e.g. in ~/.notmuch
53 + Add a list or pattern for subfolders to ignore
55 Some people are crazy enough to archive e.g. their Spam in their
56 Maildir and perhaps they'd prefer not having them indexed on notmuch.
58 Having a configuration option to exclude or include certain subparts of
59 the user's Maildir would be a very nice feature to have.
61 + Index more headers. Some desired headers:
63 + Received: allows for searches based on the arrival path
64 + Reply-To: allows for searches based on the return address
66 + Allow anchors in searches
68 `notmuch search from:domain.org$` only matches if "domain.org" is
69 at the end of the From: header
71 `notmuch search from:^username` only matches if "username" is at
72 the beginning of the From: header (right after the ':')
74 This leaves the interesting question if we want a way to bind to
75 the actual address component.
77 + Add folder tags to mail automatically
79 Add the name of the IMAP folder as the tag for mails. This way,
80 server-side filtering can be directly used by notmuch to tag all
83 + Make message store code modular
85 Notmuch is built on the assumption that the message store is a
86 collection of message files in directories (roughly Maildir
87 format). This performs suboptimally for a wide range of systems,
88 especially with large numbers of messages. Modularising the
89 message store code to move this assumption into the implementation
90 rather than the interface would allow adding support for different
91 message stores like the traditional [mbox
92 formats](http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html)
93 as well as more experimental approaches like using git as an object
94 storage (similar to how [[nmbug]] operates).
100 NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in
101 notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests
102 features for it, rather than notmuch itself.
104 + DONE: id:"878w8niy83.fsf@SSpaeth.de"
105 Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy
107 `notmuchsync --move "searchstring" "targetfolder"`
109 Where searchstring is any valid notmuch search