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> You need to do the indexing with a timer in Emacs, and because Emacs is single-threaded this blocks things / slows down the UI.

It's worth noting that multithreading recently landed in Emacs master, so it's now possible to avoid this sort of problem.




Now possible as in mu4e would need to use some API that's not in a release version of Emacs, or is it more transparent than that?


The former. I wasn't suggesting that mu4e should be converted right away to use this feature, but more concerned that an unqualified statement that long-running IO must block in Emacs would create the wrong impression.




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