From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>,
	Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
Subject: Re: Plans for the 0.2 release (this week)
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:25:14 +0200
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 00:03, Jameson Rollins
> <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> > Presumably others must be annoyed about having to manually "read" and
> > archive all their sent mail, unless there's some other way that people
> > having been dealing with this that I'm not aware of.
> 
> I haven't switched over to notmuch properly yet, but in my initial
> import of my mail I made a couple of patches to notmuch new that let
> me get the tags right first. One was to make:
> 
>     notmuch new --initial-tags=list,unread
> 
> set the initial tags for newly found messages to "list" and "unread"
> instead of the default "inbox" and "unread".
> 
> The other was to make:
> 
>     find Mail/.Saved/ -type f | notmuch new --initial-tags=archived --file-list
> 
> only process the mail files listed on stdin (via find), and give them
> the explicit tags I specify. That way I could import all my existing
> archived mail without it appearing in my inbox or as unread.

Hmm, quite interesting feature. I think that several people asked for
this in the past. I'd be happy to see the patches.

-Michal