On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:34:28 +0100 (CET), racin@free.fr wrote: > I don't understand the problem. Why not just letting all "inbox" mails in a regular Maildir, > and use git only when they have been explicit archived? This way, mails are added to git only if we want > to save them, and we rarely (never?) need to remove mail from the git store. Deleting mail > is also much easier to do from the maildir. This mail flow would make much more sense to me. I agree that this sounds much simpler and far easier to implement. Once you're passed any deletion phase, using git sounds much more sensible. jamie.