It seems to work, but i'm still waiting for the first run-through. > > Downloading messages: 457 of 22831| > > This takes ages. I hope it doesn't try to re-download all my messages > everytime. > Nope. It's very smart about not doing that. > > Another thing: > It seems that throughout its run, your script locks the notmuch database. > This is particularly > annoying if you want to read/tag mails while waiting for a long > sync-process. I think you only > really want to lock the index for a short time in the end. > Do you write to the index directly after a msg is downloaded? > I tried to solve this by closing and opening the database each time, but it actually reduced the performance considerably -- even slower than the gmail download.