On Jun 29, 2012 9:43 AM, "Ethan" <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Just a quick question: does this update the database with >> maildir://files URIs instead of just filenames? In other words is it >> safe to try out on actual mailstores? > > > It doesn't change any of the existing filenames or do anything like a database "upgrade". If you run notmuch new, it should add a URI-based filename to each message, but I don't think it should remove old filenames, so I would expect it to be fine. But I didn't expect anyone to try it on their actual mail database. I don't have the time to look into the details, but I'd like to point out that one of the powerful features of notmuch is the cli and ability to pipe the commands. I'd hate to lose the ability to pipe 'notmuch search --output=files' to tools that don't understand uris. I suppose that means I'd like the most common case - files in maildir, the status quo - to use plain filenames. Either that, or notmuch search needs a new --output switch to output uris. A user that only has files in maildir should not experience any breakage because of this. BR, Jani.