quite/alot — comment on commit 3f9abc3e8f6261c44d7614bdd20e38fef74e435e
File: alot/db.py line 482
By quite:

Ok, this is slightly confusing. To possibly sometimes avoid get_messages(), we would have to make use of notmuch_thread.get_authors(). And it sounds like you want this optimization, in case own-replacement is not to be done. So, if get_authors_string() sees that this replacement is not to be done, it should just return notmuch_thread.get_authors?

And on the side, there is a fine get_authors() which return [(name, addr), ...]. I think this must already be sorted by msg date, and have duplicate authors removed. Is that OK?