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27 From: Jan Janak <jan@ryngle.com>
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36 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH 0/4] Make tags applied by 'notmuch new'
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54 On 24-11 23:10, Jan Janak wrote:
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55 > I would like to propose that we make the list of tags applied by 'notmuch new'
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56 > configurable. Right now notmuch applies two tags to all new messages added to
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57 > the database, 'inbox' and 'unread'. The two tags are added by the C code in
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58 > notmuch-new.c and they cannot be changed without editing the source file and
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59 > recompiling notmuch.
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61 > The four patches that follow this email allow for configuring the tags to be
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62 > added by 'notmuch new' either in the configuration file or on the command
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65 > This change was motivated by my desire to remove both tags from newly added
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66 > messages. My rules for adding these two tags are more complex and I do it in
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67 > a script run after 'notmuch new'. Instead of 'inbox' and 'unread', I configure
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68 > 'notmuch new' to add a new tag called 'new' (and only that one). This tag
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69 > marks newly added messages that haven't been properly tagged yet by my
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70 > auto-tagging scripts. The last script I run after 'notmuch new' removes that
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71 > tag. My auto-tagging scripts process only messages with the tag 'new'.
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73 > On a side note; It may seem logical to add/omit the tag 'unread' directly in
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74 > 'notmuch new' based on the Maildir flags extracted from the filename of the
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75 > message. I suggest that we don't do that in 'notmuch new'. A better way would
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76 > be writing a small script or command that can be run *after* 'notmuch new'.
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77 > We could then distribute it with notmuch (maybe with other small tagging
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78 > scripts for common situations).
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80 > I think Maildir flags should be processed after 'notmuch new' is because if
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81 > there are multiple copies of a message with different flags, we may need to
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82 > see all flags from all filenames to set corresponding tags properly and we may
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83 > also need to take the directory part into consideration (i.e. the new mail is
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84 > in 'new', not 'cur').
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86 > The list of tags to be applied by notmuch can be configured in the
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87 > configuration file. There is a new section [new] which contains configuration
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88 > options for 'notmuch new'. There is only one option called 'tags'. The option
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89 > contains a semicolon separated list of tags:
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92 > tags=inbox;unread # Emulate the original behavior
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94 > One of the patches updates 'notmuch setup' to create the section and add
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95 > the tags option with tags 'inbox' and 'unread', but only if a new
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96 > configuration file is being created. If the configuration file already exists
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97 > then it just copies the contents from the old configuration file to the new
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100 > We do not ask the user for the list of tags in the interactive part, that would
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101 > have been too much. Users can edit the configuration file manually if they want
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102 > to change the list of tags. If they create a new configuration file then they
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103 > probably want to accept the default anyway.
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105 > There is one catch for users who already have a configuration file and start
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106 > using the patches. They will need to add the new section and the tags option
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107 > manually if they want to preserve current behavior of applying 'inbox' and
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108 > 'unread' automatically by 'notmuch new'.
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110 > The last patch in the set adds a new command line option to 'notmuch new'.
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111 > The name of the option is --tag and it can be used to override any tags
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112 > configured in the configuration file. For example:
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114 > notmuch new --tag=outbox --tag=read
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116 > adds the tags 'outbox' and 'read' and ignores any tags from the configuration
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119 > Comments and opinions are welcome!
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121 I updated this patch series, adding features and bug fixes suggested by others
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124 The command line option --tag now *adds* tags, so the tags configured in the
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125 configuration file are still applied...unless you use the new option
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126 --no-config-tag. With this option only the tags specified on the command line
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127 will be applied by 'notmuch-new'.
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