* Eric: > I think that there will be lots of people (and organisations) who get > collections of email from elsewhere and want to add them all to their > own single collection for reference, archival, and research purposes. And how would dropping individual mail files into "cur" instead of any old folder limit that? > So that those emails would be forced into the IMAP folder structure, > making them visible (and possible distracting) there when viewed with > a traditional mail client? I don't know why you talk about "forced", and it is not an IMAP folder structure anyway. I have configured Dovecot to use a Maildir store specifically to allow Notmuch as a client in addition to IMAP. Other storage types like Multi-dbox would be more efficient for IMAP users. In my setup, I could circumvent Dovecot's LDA and have Postfix drop off mail directly in that same Maildir structure, but I want to enable users to use Sieve scripts. This works because Dovecot and Postfix have very similar ideas about how a Maildir store should look like. My point is: Maildir has a defined structure. I'm not against Notmuch supporting a wider range of layouts, but I think Notmuch should not complain about perfectly legitimate non-mail files found outside the Maildir scope. -Ralph _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch