Synchronising mail and notmuch tags between machines

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+Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:37:02 +0000\r
+From: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>\r
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+Subject: Synchronising mail and notmuch tags between machines\r
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+I've written some code to synchronise mail between my server and laptop. I\r
+have notmuch running on both machine, whenever mail is added to notmuch, it is\r
+tagged as needing to be copied to the other machine, the tags are\r
+sync-to-laptop and sync-to-server. Whenever I modify the tags on a mail I'm\r
+careful to add the sync tag. My mail reader is configured to add the sync tag\r
+whenever I make any changes to a mail.\r
+\r
+Here is the code:\r
+\r
+https://github.com/EdwardBetts/notmuch-pushy/\r
+\r
+The synchronise code opens each database and checks for messages that need to\r
+be synchronised, the tags are copied to the other database, if the mail is new\r
+then content is copied as well. Then the sync tag is removed from the source\r
+message.\r
+\r
+I'm using a Python RPC module called pushy, it provides a simple way to\r
+connect two python interpreters on different machines. Pushy provides proxy\r
+objects to access remote objects as if they are local. These means I can\r
+access the local and remote notmuch databases from within the same piece of\r
+code.  All the communication happens over ssh, and pushy even provides methods\r
+for copying files between the machines.\r
+\r
+https://pythonhosted.org/pushy/\r
+https://github.com/pushyrpc/pushy\r
+\r
+My main todo item is reducing the amount of time that the write lock is held.\r
+I should copy messages back and forth before grabbing the write lock to update\r
+the tags.\r
+\r
+It would be helpful if the notmuch would always add the sync tag when a\r
+message was modified, unless the sync tag is explicitly being removed. That\r
+way there is no risk of me forgetting to add the sync tag when I'm modifying\r
+tags using the command line tools.\r
+-- \r
+Edward.\r