From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Maildir synchronization
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:51:28 +0100
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
> I'm thinking of documenting/implementing this such that the
> _flags_to_tags function merges (as a logical OR) the set of flags from
> all filenames for a given email message, and then computes tags from the
> final set. This does assume a particular kind of life-cycle for the
> flags, (that they are additionally unset, and once set for the logical
> message will not want to be cleared again). This lifecycle seems correct
> for things like the flags for "seen" or "replied" as documented in the
> original maildir specification.

Does this mean, that if I want to remove the replied tag (for example) I
can still do it by manipulating flags, i.e. I would remove the R flag
from all messages with the coreposnding Message-ID? Or does it mean that
the only way is to remove the replied tag in notmuch? I'd prefer the
first.

-Michal