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Subject: Re: muchsync files renames
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:46:24 -0700
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Amadeusz =C5=BBo=C5=82nowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:
>
>> What's more surprising is that there is a test case in notmuch test
>> suite which test whether after modifing tag of a mail it is moved from
>> new/ to cur/. Yes, it should be moved on any tag modification if I
>> understand correctly. But it seems it does not for my maildirs...
>>
>
> If I understand the code correctly, this movement will only happen when
> one of the maildir-flag-equivalent tags is changed. I haven't dug ack
> through the archives, but I think mutt uses presence in new/ as some
> kind of extra unseen state, so people requested not to move files until
> needed.

Can you explain how/where this is implemented?  I would like muchsync to
do exactly what notmuch does, and ideally without replicating its logic,
if I can just have libnotmuch handle this.  Currently, my code looks
something like this:

      notmuch_message_freeze()
      notmuch_message_remove_all_tags()
      notmuch_message_add_tag(); notmuch_message_add_tag(); ...
      if (synchronize_tags)
        notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flag()
      notmuch_message_thaw()

And what we're finding is the above code causes the message to move from
new/ to cur/, while the "notmuch tag" command does not, even while
changing between the same before and after tag sets.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
David