Re: should filter out replies when indexing

Subject: Re: should filter out replies when indexing

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:34:24 +0100

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Ralph Seichter


* Martin Monperrus:

> Hi Notmuch team, Here is a bug report.

I am not involved in Notmuch development, but in my opinion what you
describe does not qualify as a bug at all.

> Notmuch indexes all messages including the replied content.

Sure. That's how I expect Notmuch to behave.

> In the case of dozens of messages in a thread, one does not know which
> one to open.

And you want Notmuch to deal with people's quoting habits (or shall we
say preferences) for you? Instead of you using your MUA's threading
support to home in on the messages you are interested in? That seems
like an unusual approach to me. If somebody were to implement the
behaviour you are asking for, I sure hope it would be done in a way that
required deliberate opt-in.

-Ralph
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