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. 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. d