From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:04:14 -0400
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Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz> writes:

> On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:38:30 -0400
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> > I was pondering this before and would find it rather neat, but it is
>> > bit more complicated than it might first seem. The hook needs to be
>> > able to add arbitrary files to be watched for changes and deduce
>> > from that which files need their tags re-read.  
>> 
>> perhaps lastmod: queries can help here. that's more or less what they
>> added for.
>> 
>> d
>> 
>
> That only helps with applying tags from notmuch to maildir, not
> vice-versa, which is the main thing I was talking about.

For changes to dovecot-keywords files, you're on your own. But changes
to the actual maildir flags are file renames, which should trigger an
increase in lastmod counter; if not I'd consider that a bug.

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