1 [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
2 #List of features people have requested and ideas that people want to keep thinking about
6 See the [devel/TODO file](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/TODO) in the
7 [notmuch git repository](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch).
13 Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.
15 When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that
18 When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently
19 displayed message inside the thread.
23 Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.
25 When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that
26 the cursor is on (just like 'd')
28 When used from the thread view, it deletes the currently
29 displayed thread (and not just the message)
31 + Add '???' keybinding
33 Skips current thread without archiving it
35 Right now 'n' gets me to the end of a thread, but not to the
36 beginning of the next thread. 'a' gets you to the next thread,
37 but archives the current one.
39 + Allow different "real names" for the optional email addresses
41 if only one name is configured, use that for all addresses;
42 if other_names are configured, match those with the other_email addresses
44 + Put the the emacs mode in a separate repository and include it as a submmodule in main (better for emacs package managers among other things).
48 + Add hooks for retagging:
49 + pre-tag: Called before tagging messages
50 + post-tag: Called after messages got tagged
52 This might be useful if you want to sync for example your Maildirs with the notmuch tags.
54 + Allow a custom location for .notmuch
56 The notmuch index is currently saved in .notmuch under the user's
57 Maildir and there's no configuration option to change that.
59 This is problematic with both tools that sync Maildirs and with IMAP
60 servers that consider .notmuch a Maildir subfolder (e.g. dovecot)
62 A better solution would be to add a configuration option for this so
63 that it can be put e.g. in ~/.notmuch
65 + Add a list or pattern for subfolders to ignore
67 Some people are crazy enough to archive e.g. their Spam in their
68 Maildir and perhaps they'd prefer not having them indexed on notmuch.
70 Having a configuration option to exclude or include certain subparts of
71 the user's Maildir would be a very nice feature to have.
73 + Index more headers. Some desired headers:
75 + Received: allows for searches based on the arrival path
76 + Reply-To: allows for searches based on the return address
78 + Allow anchors in searches
80 `notmuch search from:domain.org$` only matches if "domain.org" is
81 at the end of the From: header
83 `notmuch search from:^username` only matches if "username" is at
84 the beginning of the From: header (right after the ':')
86 This leaves the interesting question if we want a way to bind to
87 the actual address component.
89 + Add folder tags to mail automatically
91 Add the name of the IMAP folder as the tag for mails. This way,
92 server-side filtering can be directly used by notmuch to tag all
95 + Make message store code modular
97 Notmuch is built on the assumption that the message store is a
98 collection of message files in directories (roughly Maildir
99 format). This performs suboptimally for a wide range of systems,
100 especially with large numbers of messages. Modularising the
101 message store code to move this assumption into the implementation
102 rather than the interface would allow adding support for different
103 message stores like the traditional [mbox
104 formats](http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html)
105 as well as more experimental approaches like using git as an object
106 storage (similar to how [[nmbug]] operates).
108 + Put content of all non-multipart content-types in results of `notmuch show --format=json ...`
110 In the JSON-format output of the `show` command, only text/plain
111 parts' content is included. Including the content of parts having any
112 non-multipart content-type would assist with those who wished to access
113 their mail through notmuch's `show` command (because of having written
114 their MUA in a language with no library bindings or access to them
115 [e.g. Perl, Lua or shell]) and also had a mailcap or similar MIME-type
116 mapping system with which to actually view HTML files, images and the like.
122 NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in
123 notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests
124 features for it, rather than notmuch itself.
126 + DONE: id:"878w8niy83.fsf@SSpaeth.de"
127 Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy
129 `notmuchsync --move "searchstring" "targetfolder"`
131 Where searchstring is any valid notmuch search