Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Respect maildir flags when importing a new message

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+From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>,\r
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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Respect maildir flags when\r
+       importing a new message\r
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+On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Carl Worth wrote:\r
+> On Mon,  1 Mar 2010 14:28:56 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:\r
+> > When importing a new mail do check for maildir tags and assign\r
+> > corresponding notmuch tags.\r
+> \r
+> I think this is a useful thing to support, as obviously new users have\r
+> *some* state that's interesting to import (which messages have been\r
+> "seen" for example), and simply importing their entire email archive\r
+> with both the "inbox" and "unread" tags is not helpful. So I'd like to\r
+> figure out how to support this.\r
+\r
+I'm solving this in my mailstore abstraction patches. I'll send the next\r
+version in a while.\r
+\r
+> > Do note that this will only add tags when importing a really new\r
+> > message, and will not do anything when detecting a file rename\r
+> > (although someone should really make it honor file renames as\r
+> > well). Deleteing an existing message in another IMAP client will\r
+> > therefore not trigger tagging (as it counts as a file rename).\r
+> \r
+> But I think we really need to fix that if we're going to claim that\r
+> notmuch "supports maildir flags" in any sense.\r
+> \r
+> It's a fairly tricky issue though since we can have multiple files that\r
+> have the same message ID, but then have different maildir flags. And\r
+> it's the matter of arbitrary ordering which one of these files appears\r
+> as "new" and which one appears as a "rename".\r
+\r
+Yes, that's a problem. It is not currently solved in my pacthes, but I\r
+have one solution in my mind. Let's discuss this with my patch.\r
+\r
+> It's not obvious to me what we can do here unless we make some\r
+> assumptions, (such as "mails always start without the seen flag, and\r
+> once it appears it can't be removed" or so). But I'd love some input\r
+> From someone who's thought harder about this than I have.\r
+\r
+-Michal\r