From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 20:36:39 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: Emacs: postponing messages X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5648ed441e05a35046b0e41eb8448dbdc22f8691;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Emacs: postponing messages --- diff --git a/02/5e4df2e442549504e5799da488b92d6c6c3ae1 b/02/5e4df2e442549504e5799da488b92d6c6c3ae1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6a8088797 --- /dev/null +++ b/02/5e4df2e442549504e5799da488b92d6c6c3ae1 @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D966DE01D0 + for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:36:56 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.02 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.02 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.020] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id f7JhOxjx-uFk for ; + Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:36:48 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [162.247.75.118]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30216DE00DB + for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from fifthhorseman.net (unknown [38.109.115.130]) + by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BFC1F98B; + Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:36:43 -0400 (EDT) +Received: by fifthhorseman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) + id 34943201E6; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:36:43 -0400 (EDT) +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor +To: Mark Walters , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: Emacs: postponing messages +In-Reply-To: <87mvn330zr.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> +References: <87mvn330zr.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.22+16~g87b7bd4 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:36:39 -0400 +Message-ID: <8760trqqeg.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; + micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +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: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:36:56 -0000 + +--=-=-= +Content-Type: text/plain + +On Thu 2016-06-02 14:21:44 -0400, Mark Walters wrote: +> My broad idea for postpone is to take the partial message, use notmuch +> insert to put it in the database with a "postponed" tag, and then on +> resume fetch the raw message and go into notmuch-message-mode, and also +> either add a deleted tag to the resumed message, or better actually +> delete the resumed message. Finally, we would add postponed to the +> excluded tags list, so that postponed messages only show up when +> searched for. + +I'd love to see this happen. The terminology many other mail user +agents use for this workflow is often "draft" or "drafts" so we might do +well to adopt that term, instead of using "postpone", which i don't +think is as widely-used. + +> An alternative would be to attach the attachments with the postponed +> message. This is probably doable by writing the message (as if being +> fcc'd) to notmuch insert, and then using the mime-to-mml function to +> reverse the process. The downside here is that now the attached file is +> not the current file in the filesystem when you send -- ie its different +> from the normal case. + +I like this approach, and i don't think that the caveat you're +describing is a particuarly bad one, though it depends on how +mime-to-mml works. + +I just tested it, and mime-to-mml actually produced something that was +not directly sendable in notmuch-message-mode, because it didn't include +the "--text follows this line--" break between headers and body :/ But +this is probably fixable ;) + +However, mime-to-mml actually embedded the content of the included +sub-part upon reconstruction and the filename was only the leaf filename +(i'd included /home/dkg/tmp/test.txt, and in the reconstructed #part it +said filename="test.txt" nofile=yes) + +Since this doesn't include the original path of the file (and it said +"nofile=yes"), then i don't think it's a problem. + +One thing i should note is that if there's a message-id assigned during +saving of the draft, then we need to think carefully about how a draft +that gets saved multiple times gets indexed. it'll have the same +message-id, which is good, but there will likely be multiple files +referencing it, each with different content. ideally, there would only +be one copy indexed, and it would be the latest one. Also, the +actually-sent mail should be indexed in preference over a previous +draft. + +The above pieces would all be really great to have! In addition, if +they were in place, it'd be good to have an variant notmuch-search view +that lists the recipients instead of the senders, so that i can do a +search for tag:draft and actually see who the messages were sent to, +instead of my own name (as the sender) on each item :) + + --dkg + +--=-=-= +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v2 + +iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXUJjYXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w +ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFREIyRTc0RjU2RkNGMkI2NzI5N0I3MzUy +NEVDRkY1QUZGNjgzNzBBAAoJECTs/1r/aDcKPjoQAJnoQA3FDsZ+GMDu7hbfh0gD +QepjocxPX1ER1SEOUVgy7fFUE4chHbG/mKyKyVYF40DHMEJvri3GMyavw0fFvEA+ +NHL2mrDZqDC2MbhlqZps13tvD3RVUPkhiaZjVavVXIEgoqQzQOA00pCbRrj7iRQ/ +Aadkx5ra4RmeGKWqvNDsPEy4oZPR5Gig9nQEUrwdVD/YXkMjU849/tq4ZfqP9Qec +RuL6YKDz9PgOIDGZb86ePrwcFq6ekHoeI6u/EPIG1ov7fIGchVWRlbatEOeF09Xq +REyGDtsnGfW0axFUPsBbJVSPz+B2hQpRfqn53Di3+8j2+R/l/kCGrRsN8eKJQbKe +sANY3KRpY1sq/GkhTRERgXQPD9MTeCZBeerIUrwIECbOfe6QFutN7yxlX54QO/kj +k1zvMurLWW+b7E/MJ1jL96CUc0AVjFdMdz9Pjs2510+5PEgXJxRAHDTg++tw2U3S +yzTj1rsREmkdf/78H38lDK1zhZcxtAYlCl4cNduGsAaB6tJG+rsPuJgtqUynDDtA +fNClsCcXLUgGjBFIlNBA95G/PK40u/qKfrSCVyrFy87STtJvwxNX1FaYqMQ7YNiV +gQHi0f9wE+kNjI5GoudsCmAmLc17iyMZG5d++XhskvSFk4xNqsPNYEKTpOs+FaTm +SRcDSU4waEF3ayWV8geb +=5ZYr +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +--=-=-=--