David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> writes:
>
>
>> I'd prefer having the mapping stored in the config file rather than in
>> the database. This would allow me to synchronize the configuration
>> between multiple computers. Would there be some benefit of having the
>> mapping (also) in the database?
>
> In retrospect, probably not that great a benefit, except I kindof
> dislike the idea of putting the mess that is notmuch-config.c into the
> library, so we'd likely have to deal with coming up with a clean config
> file mechanism.

One issue such a configuration mechanism would have to deal with that
the current one does not is concurrent access by multiple clients. This
is not impossible, but just another complication.

d