On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:08:49 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

>    What's your favorite thing about notmuch?

It's the only email index that respects unix ideas, and hence the only
usable to me. It doesn't do _everything_ but limits itself to indexing,
while doing a great job at that. That's how software is supposed to work.
Of course you could argue notmuch comes with notmuch.el, but i'd argue
this is a seperate project.

>    What about notmuch makes it distinctive compared to other email
>    programs?

See above. All other email indexers are built into large complex gui
crap that doesnt make any sense to me. I'm just not a Microsoft Windows fan.
Probably that would make me a "geek".

>    If someone were to implement a new email system from scratch, but
>    capturing the "ideas" of notmuch, what would it have to have?

The same design. It would probably only differ in technical details like language.