Hi David, On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:12:19PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Often when searching for messages from these collaborators, I realise I > > cannot recall their real names (or cannot spell it correctly). It would > > be great if notmuch had a facility to map nicknames to real names; > > something like what git does with .mailmap. > > > > Does something like this exist? If not, is it feasible? I think it > > would be a great addition. > > It might be possible to use xapian synonyms > > http://xapian.org/docs/synonyms.html > > to do this. That is exactly the kind of functionality I was hoping for. > > The basic synonym enabling doesn't look that hard, I think the fiddly > bits would be in loading up the synonyms at right time. We'd have to > think about how to sensibly store/backup this information so that > bindings users could have access to it. I'm not familiar with the notmuch code base at all, but I would like to help getting this feature in. Do you have any hints where I should start looking? Is there any background work that I could do? Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.