I misread this the first time, thinking it was about mboxes. Dealing with compressed individual messages seems at least potentially simpler.
Subject: [Joerg Jaspert] Bug#688609: notmuch: Can't deal with compressed maildir files
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:04:21 -0300
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From: David Bremner
I misread this the first time, thinking it was about mboxes. Dealing with compressed individual messages seems at least potentially simpler.