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25 From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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26 To: Sander Boer <sanderboer@mauc.nl>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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27 Subject: Re: notmuch Digest, Vol 20, Issue 57
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55 On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:43:41 +0200, Sander Boer <sanderboer@mauc.nl> wrote:
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56 > For instance, is this a possibility sync gmail tags with notmuch tags ?
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57 > As fas as I am aware Gmail exposes its tags through imap folders, I am
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58 > not too thrilled about the mixing of paradigms (folders vs tags) and it
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59 > would be great if it could be aligned.
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61 I'm not a gmail user myself, but I can describe some of the options
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64 First, it's important to understand that any friction here comes from
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65 Gmail exposing its tags as folders, (which in turn could be the lack of
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66 availability of a more tag-aware protocol than imap).
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68 So, let's say you've done an imap-based fetch of all of your mail and
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69 now have it in several folders corresponding to the various tags you
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70 made in the Gmail interface, (and you've run "notmuch new" to create a
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71 notmuch database of all of that).
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73 At that point, you can search (with current notmuch from git---and soon
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74 to be released as notmuch 0.6) on the folder names. This allows you to
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75 do a search based on a Gmail tag. For example, you might have an
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76 "important" tag in Gmail which you could search with:
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78 notmuch search folder:important
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80 If you wanted to make an actual notmuch tag based on those search
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81 results, you could do that as well:
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83 notmuch tag +important folder:important
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85 And you could even do that on a regular basis, (for example in some
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86 script that sucks down new email from Gmail). In this case you might
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87 want to avoid re-tagging pre-tagged mail by amending the search terms:
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89 notmuch tag +important folder:important and not tag:important
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91 (Note that this is an optimization that notmuch could be making
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92 automatically, and that's something I'd love to see happen in notmuch at
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95 Hopefully it's clear enough that you could do the above in a script that
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96 loops over all of your existing tags.
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98 And if you were doing a one-time switch from Gmail to notmuch that would
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99 be all you would need.
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101 I don't know if you're looking to also push tags added via some notmuch
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102 interface back to Gmail, (does Gmail even provide a mechanism for doing
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103 that?). If so, then you'd need something that took notmuch tags and made
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104 copies of the message in the appropriate files. That would hopefully be
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105 easy to script based on the output of:
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107 notmuch search --output=3Dfiles tag:important
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109 I think my short answer is that it's fairly easy to convert from Gmail
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110 tags to notmuch tags as part of a one-time import. Doing this on a
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111 continual basis might benefit from writing a few scripts, and I don't
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112 know if anyone has written those scripts yet.
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114 Would any Gmail+notmuch users care to add anything to the conversation?
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119 carl.d.worth@intel.com
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