From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:38:30 -0400
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Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz> writes:

>
> Every such maildir extension out there that I know of was invented for
> some specific application. Out of the two documented formats there are,
> the dovecot-keywords file is:
>
> 1) more limited (26 tags maximum)
> 2) simpler to implement, especially wrt. detecting changes
> 3) usable out of the box with some tools, as you noted

Actually, I just mean the extra maildir flags. I guess only the dovecot
sync tool syncs dovecot-keywords. And I don't think "notmuch+dsync
users" is a very big group, fwiw.

>> On the other hand, maybe not much change to the notmuch core would be
>> needed to at least experiment with this, using e.g. hooks to
>> notmuch-insert and notmuch-new.
>
> 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