From: Jesse Rosenthal Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:46:24 +0000 (+1900) Subject: Re: notmuch-lib questions and observations X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01fd622d90b5eff703593f824c2b698c2736f272;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: notmuch-lib questions and observations --- diff --git a/38/17716a1c98abedad66e0bbebd2287cb46c0833 b/38/17716a1c98abedad66e0bbebd2287cb46c0833 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bd0808e6b --- /dev/null +++ b/38/17716a1c98abedad66e0bbebd2287cb46c0833 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A170431FBF + for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:46:41 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id dmDH5GSRCr9b for ; + Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:46:33 -0800 (PST) +Received: from smtpauth.johnshopkins.edu (smtpauth.johnshopkins.edu + [162.129.8.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A729431FBC + for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:46:33 -0800 (PST) +X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,729,1378872000"; + d="scan'208";a="8639971" +Received: from c-69-137-43-192.hsd1.md.comcast.net (HELO localhost) + ([69.137.43.192]) + by ipex0.johnshopkins.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; + 19 Nov 2013 08:46:28 -0500 +From: Jesse Rosenthal +To: Tomi Valkeinen , Jani Nikula , + notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: notmuch-lib questions and observations +In-Reply-To: <528B5C1F.4050908@iki.fi> +References: <528A26F4.3040006@iki.fi> <87bo1gio9c.fsf@nikula.org> + <528B5C1F.4050908@iki.fi> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.16+156~gdb5189a (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-apple-darwin) +Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:46:24 -0500 +Message-ID: +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:46:41 -0000 + +Tomi Valkeinen writes: + +> I think I wasn't very clear on what I meant. I was thinking about the +> behavior that graphical mail clients have: they periodically refresh the +> emails, showing new ones if there are any, and they'll show some icon or +> such which tells the user this email is "new" (which could mean received +> in the last periodic refresh). + +I do something similar to what you were describing. I put two tags, +"fresh" and "new" on mails that have just come in. "fresh" is for +internal use -- it allows me to run scripts on certain mails that +haven't been checked before, and it is taken off of everything before I +see it. "new" is left on, and means that it just came in with the last +poll. This is all done as a post-new hook. Then, as pre-new hook, I +remove all the "new" tags. So when I poll again, I only see the ones +that came in with the newest poll. + +If I want to see what I've received since the last poll, I just run a +search with "tag:new AND tag:inbox." + +Now, this is dones with the hooks that the command-line client uses, so +you'd have to implement it yourself for your client, but that shouldn't +be too hard. + +