Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
>
> another wishlist going upstream. Would be nice if notmuch can be told
> that the mailfiles are compressed (gzip in this case), or even better -
> detect that itself. And then transparently deal with it.

Dear Joerg;

This wish is already known upstream, and there are some proposed
patches at 

        http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/11522

I'm not sure if this deals with compression or just maildir files.

I'm sure Ethan would appreciate feedback on the patches.

d