How does notmuch track mails?

Subject: How does notmuch track mails?

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 16:02:23 +0200

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Matthias Beyer


Hi,

(I'm not subscribed to your ML, so please keep me in CC when replying)

Disclaimer: I never used notmuch - so my questions might appear dumb.

So I'm developing this personal information management (PIM) suite[0]
and one aspect of PIM clearly is communication a la mail.

I wonder how notmuch tracks mails. Lets assume that we have a big
Maildir tree - mails move around all the time - how does notmuch
(re)find them? Is there a unique way to identify an email? As far as I
know isn't the message id one of them, right?

[0]: https://github.com/matthiasbeyer/imag

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Matthias Beyer

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