Best use for pulling emails

I am loving the mutt and notmuch integration but had a question whether or not offlineimap is the best way to pull down my email and index it. I do not have direct access to the mail server so offlineimap has been the best way to go, thus far. I am also using the postsync-hooks in offlineimap to call the notmuch-poll to start the new mail indexing. My question is how to avoid Mutt and notmuch-poll locking the notmuch database at the same time causing Mutt to crash. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better method? I have worked around this by waiting to make label changes until after offlineimap finishes. Any tips are welcome. Thanks again for putting together the integration of mutt and offlineimap. Dlord