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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
39 + 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).
43 + Allow a custom location for .notmuch
45 The notmuch index is currently saved in .notmuch under the user's
46 Maildir and there's no configuration option to change that.
48 This is problematic with both tools that sync Maildirs and with IMAP
49 servers that consider .notmuch a Maildir subfolder (e.g. dovecot)
51 A better solution would be to add a configuration option for this so
52 that it can be put e.g. in ~/.notmuch
54 + Add a list or pattern for subfolders to ignore
56 Some people are crazy enough to archive e.g. their Spam in their
57 Maildir and perhaps they'd prefer not having them indexed on notmuch.
59 Having a configuration option to exclude or include certain subparts of
60 the user's Maildir would be a very nice feature to have.
62 + Index more headers. Some desired headers:
64 + Received: allows for searches based on the arrival path
65 + Reply-To: allows for searches based on the return address
67 + Allow anchors in searches
69 `notmuch search from:domain.org$` only matches if "domain.org" is
70 at the end of the From: header
72 `notmuch search from:^username` only matches if "username" is at
73 the beginning of the From: header (right after the ':')
75 This leaves the interesting question if we want a way to bind to
76 the actual address component.
78 + Add folder tags to mail automatically
80 Add the name of the IMAP folder as the tag for mails. This way,
81 server-side filtering can be directly used by notmuch to tag all
84 + Make message store code modular
86 Notmuch is built on the assumption that the message store is a
87 collection of message files in directories (roughly Maildir
88 format). This performs suboptimally for a wide range of systems,
89 especially with large numbers of messages. Modularising the
90 message store code to move this assumption into the implementation
91 rather than the interface would allow adding support for different
92 message stores like the traditional [mbox
93 formats](http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html)
94 as well as more experimental approaches like using git as an object
95 storage (similar to how [[nmbug]] operates).
97 + Put content of all non-multipart content-types in results of `notmuch show --format=json ...`
99 In the JSON-format output of the `show` command, only text/plain
100 parts' content is included. Including the content of parts having any
101 non-multipart content-type would assist with those who wished to access
102 their mail through notmuch's `show` command (because of having written
103 their MUA in a language with no library bindings or access to them
104 [e.g. Perl, Lua or shell]) and also had a mailcap or similar MIME-type
105 mapping system with which to actually view HTML files, images and the like.
111 NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in
112 notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests
113 features for it, rather than notmuch itself.
115 + DONE: id:"878w8niy83.fsf@SSpaeth.de"
116 Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy
118 `notmuchsync --move "searchstring" "targetfolder"`
120 Where searchstring is any valid notmuch search