Re: Switching away from Wanderlust?

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:20:48 +0000,
Robin Green wrote:
> 
> I am thinking of switching to the notmuch mail client, because WL
> development is virtually dead and its search seems to be way slower
> than notmuch.

Oh, hadn't seen that one.  Must try it!

http://notmuchmail.org/
http://keithp.com/blogs/notmuch/

Sadly, no NNTP support :(

> But WL has some nice features. Two things that might convince me to
> stay are:
> 
> 1. faster search
> 
> 2. an active development tree - if necessary, a forked one
> 
> How likely do you think it is that I will see either of these
> things?

Realistically speaking?  I hesitate to say.

> Does anyone have any suggestions for faster search?

Mairix is really zippy IME.

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