add a page describing the email corpus

[obsolete/notmuch-wiki] / feature-requests.mdwn

diff --git a/feature-requests.mdwn b/feature-requests.mdwn
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--- a/feature-requests.mdwn
+++ b/feature-requests.mdwn
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 +    Add 'd' keybinding
 
      Removes unread and inbox tags, adds deleted tag.
-     
+
      When used from a search results view, it deletes the thread that
      the cursor is on.
 
@@ -36,8 +36,15 @@
      if only one name is configured, use that for all addresses;
      if other_names are configured, match those with the other_email addresses
 
++    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).
+ 
+## notmuch
+
++    Add hooks for retagging:
+   + pre-tag: Called before tagging messages
+   + post-tag: Called after messages got tagged
 
-## notmuch 
+     This might be useful if you want to sync for example your Maildirs with the notmuch tags.
 
 +    Allow a custom location for .notmuch
 
@@ -80,15 +87,39 @@
      server-side filtering can be directly used by notmuch to tag all
      incoming mail.
 
++    Make message store code modular
+
+     Notmuch is built on the assumption that the message store is a
+     collection of message files in directories (roughly Maildir
+     format). This performs suboptimally for a wide range of systems,
+     especially with large numbers of messages. Modularising the
+     message store code to move this assumption into the implementation
+     rather than the interface would allow adding support for different
+     message stores like the traditional [mbox
+     formats](http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html)
+     as well as more experimental approaches like using git as an object
+     storage (similar to how [[nmbug]] operates).
+
++    Put content of all non-multipart content-types in results of `notmuch show --format=json ...`
+
+     In the JSON-format output of the `show` command, only text/plain
+     parts' content is included.  Including the content of parts having any
+     non-multipart content-type would assist with those who wished to access
+     their mail through notmuch's `show` command (because of having written
+     their MUA in a language with no library bindings or access to them
+     [e.g. Perl, Lua or shell]) and also had a mailcap or similar MIME-type
+     mapping system with which to actually view HTML files, images and the like.
+
 ## 3rd party apps
 
 ### notmuchsync
 
-+    NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in
-     notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests features
-     for it, rather than notmuch itself.
+NOTE: most of notmuchsync's functionality has been integrated in
+      notmuch 0.5. It probably doesn't make much sense to requests
+      features for it, rather than notmuch itself.
 
-+    Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy
++    DONE: id:"878w8niy83.fsf@SSpaeth.de"
+     Add feature to move files in the maildir hierarchy
 
      `notmuchsync --move "searchstring" "targetfolder"`