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+From: Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca>\r
+To: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>,\r
+ <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: email snoozing in notmuch\r
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+Hi Richard,\r
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+Thanks for the nice and simple solution. I prefer this one to a solution\r
+like notmuch-snooze that stores the desnoozing in an external program\r
+and thus complicates backups.\r
+\r
+ Sebastian\r
+\r
+Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:\r
+\r
+> Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>\r
+> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> Sebastian Fischmeister wrote:\r
+> \r
+>>> I'm thinking of how to realize the mail snoozing feature with notmuch,\r
+>>> so that certain emails won't become visible (in the search) until a\r
+>>> certain day/time (e.g., 10 days from now).\r
+>>> \r
+>>> Using the tag as an absolute date when the mail should become visible\r
+>>> again, tags should be searchable and interpretable as dates. The search\r
+>>> would then be something like: notmuch search tag-as-date < now and\r
+>>> tag:inbox\r
+>>\r
+>> It is not neccessary to make notmuch interpret tags as date - just interpret them yourself ;)\r
+>> You can easily run your own scripts and modify tags/mails. So a simple solution might be:\r
+>> * Add "snoozed" to your notmuch exclude_tags (see config file)\r
+>> * To snooze a mail run in your mail client "tag +snoozed +snoozeby-10-days"\r
+>> or "tag +snoozed +snoozeuntil-2015-01-09"\r
+>> * Your script (e.g. run as cronjob or after notmuch new) now \r
+>> - queries for "tag:snoozed"\r
+>> - looks for snoozeuntil-* tag and parses the tag into a date. If date < now remove snooze-tags.\r
+>> - looks for (relative) snoozeby tag and transform it into (absolute) snoozeuntil tag.\r
+>> (should be not too hard using e.g. the python or ruby bindings)\r
+>\r
+> I actually do something like this. It's not everything Sebastian was\r
+> looking for, but it's very simple, and works great for me.\r
+>\r
+> I use a combination of a "pending" tag and a "byYYYYMMDD" tag.\r
+>\r
+> From cron, I run the following to refile pending mail back to the inbox\r
+> when it comes due:\r
+>\r
+> #!/bin/bash\r
+> DATE_STR=$(date +'%Y%m%d')\r
+> notmuch tag +inbox -pending -by$DATE_STR -- tag:by$DATE_STR\r
+>\r
+> and in Emacs, I use the following key binding to snooze mail (or in the Mutt\r
+> terminology I borrowed, `postpone' it, hence the key):\r
+>\r
+> (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "P"\r
+> (lambda ()\r
+> "postpone message (remove inbox tag, add pending tag and refile date)"\r
+> (interactive)\r
+> (let* ((date-string (format-time-string "%Y%m%d" (org-read-date nil t)))\r
+> (date-tag (concat "+by" date-string)))\r
+> (notmuch-search-tag `("-inbox" "+pending" ,date-tag)))))\r
+> \r
+> (The `org-read-date' function gives me a nice easy way to pick a date\r
+> from a calendar. I bind "P" to the same function in\r
+> notmuch-show-mode-map, too.)\r
+>\r
+> Hope that helps!\r
+>\r
+> Best,\r
+> Richard\r
+>\r
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