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44 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:39:10 -0400
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46 <CAJhTkNhcUjM0ut+8JQX1ifVhPL4D+kLzoHz_nTRxQrmFJT4scA@mail.gmail.com>
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47 Subject: Re: Understanding the "replied" tag
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48 From: Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>
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49 To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
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67 On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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68 > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> wrote:
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71 >> First, I am extremely excited to be a part of this list now. notmuch
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72 >> has really helped me. Thank you go all individuals working to improve
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73 >> it and to help others to know how to use it.
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75 >> I would really like to know if a message has been replied to (e.g.
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76 >> using a certain message id). It seems that all I need to do is check
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77 >> for the "replied" tag. But often this tag is not there, even when
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78 >> there has been a reply (I have confirmed this through the thread
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79 >> display and checking the message that replied to the message to make
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80 >> sure it indeed has header "replied-to:<MSG-ID>").
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82 >> I have looked in mutt, and also I see many situations where there is
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83 >> no 'r' flag, especially for emails sent from me.
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85 >> The following returns true:
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86 >> notmuch config get maildir.synchronize_flags
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88 >> So at least both are giving same answer, but I'm not sure why not
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89 >> saying "replied" thread is correct.
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91 >> What is incorrect for my way of thinking about "replied"? Do I
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92 >> misunderstand what it is supposed to do or am I not updating the flags
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95 > Notmuch deals with the "replied" tag in two ways.
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97 > First, the tag is synchronized with the maildir flag R, both ways. This
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98 > is the "R" in the filename after ":2,". See [1] for details.
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100 > Second, the notmuch-emacs interface adds the "replied" tag upon sending
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101 > the reply. You can customize this tag, but note that only "replied" gets
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102 > synchronized to maildir flags.
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104 > If you use a MUA that doesn't either add the R flag or call notmuch to
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105 > add the "replied" tag, you'll lose this bit of information.
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107 > You might also find [2] relevant.
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113 > [1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
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114 > [2] http://notmuchmail.org/special-tags/
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116 Thank you so much, Jani. This is very informative to me. I think I
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117 have a good understanding now of what is going on.
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119 My question then is this:
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121 I trust notmuch more than mutt, because notmuch is aware of threads
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122 and all mail boxes. Also note that I often use gmail web interface to
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125 Am I correct in the following: if notmuch wanted to, when I run
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126 "notmuch new", notmuch has the information that it could
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127 (theoretically) update and correct all of the "replied" tags. Is that
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128 correct? If so, my next question is: why doesn't it do that?
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130 I think I'm close to getting notmuch intution on its goals.
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