[help] Notmuch setup instruction wanted.

[JackTheMico]

Hi @soywod, thank you for creating this project. I'm having trouble using notmuch as the backend and couldn't find the related documentation so I opened the issue.

My problem is that notmuch can get 721 emails after the command: notmuch search tag:inbox | lines | length, but Himalaya always gets 0.

Here's a screenshot to show it:

And here are my Himalaya configurations:

[accounts.jackwenyoung]
default = true
email = "dlwxxxdlw@gmail.com"
display-name = "Jack Wenyoung"
downloads-dir = "/home/jackwenyoung/Downloads/himajack"
backend.type = "notmuch"
backend.db-path = "/home/jackwenyoung/.notmuch/default"
folder.aliases.inbox = "inbox"

Am I missing something? How should I configure it to make it work?

[soywod]

Hello @JackTheMico, and welcome on board!

My guess is that there is a mismatch between the Maildir structure and what is expected by the Notmuch backend. I would be glad to help you, but I will drop the Notmuch support for the next release due incompatible licences 😞, see pimalaya/core#31. I would advise instead to configure the Maildir backend. This implies 2 things:

• The query system is less performent, because it uses an internal implementation rather than the powerful Notmuch one
• Everytime you interact with you Maildir folder you will need to manually sync your Notmuch database

[JackTheMico]

Thank you. Can you share more information about setting up Maildir with two Gmail accounts?
I have tried Neomutt+notmuch+lieer in the past few days and it didn't work out for me.
So Himalaya is looking promising to me 😊