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diff --git a/src/types.h b/src/types.h index cf2411d..47ddb78 100644 --- a/src/types.h +++ b/src/types.h @@ -62,6 +62,25 @@ struct ThreadSummary /// file. Do not move it behind a flag by analogy with `recipients`. QStringList firstMessageTags; + /// That message's sender, as a BARE ADDRESS with no display name. + /// + /// `authors` above is notmuch's own summarised string and carries display + /// names ONLY: measured against the real index, 'Ryanair' and 'The Hacker + /// News tramite LinkedIn', with no `@` anywhere. A card therefore has no + /// address to hash for its avatar and nothing for the business-sender list + /// to match, which is why this exists (item 169). + /// + /// Hashing the display name instead was rejected: notmuch BUILDS those + /// strings, so one sender's identity varies as the string does. + /// + /// Free, for the same reason `firstMessageId` and `firstMessageTags` are: + /// the walk that finds that message is already happening and From is + /// served from the INDEX, not the message file. Measured 2026-08-26 on the + /// developer's database: 1322 distinct senders in 12 ms, 5105 messages + /// enumerated in 76 ms. Do not move it behind a flag by analogy with + /// `recipients`. + QString firstMessageSender; + /// That message's file, RELATIVE to the database path, which is what says /// which ACCOUNT it belongs to. /// |