On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:13:36 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, David Edmondson wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:14:56 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > > > > I'm puzzled why you chose to pass a filename as the argument to 'cat' > > > > rather than a message id (id:foo@bar.com)? > > > > > > The reason is that I want be able to distinguish between several > > > messages with the same id. > > > > It strikes me that notmuch is not well suited to this in general. For > > example, how would you find the filenames for the two messages with the > > same message id? > > Currently, it is probably not possible but I can imagine that "notmuch > show" will output all file names associated with the message id and user > could select between them if he needs. If the filenames are really 'unique message identifiers' and may not work when passed to open(2), then I don't have a problem. dme. -- David Edmondson, http://dme.org