From: David Bremner Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:03:08 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79c50a665301a0e5a1f45354587e7bca650ea0fd;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags --- diff --git a/03/0d1b1b6dfe104a8fad29bc42dc2d2b69d401ac b/03/0d1b1b6dfe104a8fad29bc42dc2d2b69d401ac new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a27b7017f --- /dev/null +++ b/03/0d1b1b6dfe104a8fad29bc42dc2d2b69d401ac @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +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 448246DE1226 + for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:03:18 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.308 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.308 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.243, + RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.55, SPF_PASS=-0.001] 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 ZtQeOPYGV6WU for ; + Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:03:15 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0273B6DE01FF + for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:03:14 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) + id 1aQw8k-0004fc-19; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:02:30 -0500 +Received: (nullmailer pid 8782 invoked by uid 1000); + Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:03:08 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Jan Pobrislo , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags +In-Reply-To: <20160202175220.12f8a712@dorje.v103.te2000> +References: <1448504191-30974-1-git-send-email-igor.contato@gmail.com> + <87mvsd7cxr.fsf@zancas.localnet> <20160202175220.12f8a712@dorje.v103.te2000> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+26~g9404723 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:03:08 -0400 +Message-ID: <87d1se9f2b.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +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: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:03:18 -0000 + +Jan Pobrislo writes: +> +> I think that using fixed mapping for flag meaning is a good POC step, +> but that won't work without explicit support from the synchronizer to +> map specific keywords to always same tags. I don't really know what +> offlineimap does to synchronize keywords, if anything. Dsync already +> does what it does - which is obviously to use the full dovecot format. +> + +I see, you're talking about this "dovecot-keywords" file I guess + + http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir + +Some questions that spring to mind: + +- This is clearly dovecot specific; I wonder what fraction of + our users would benefit. I suppose that's a question about any scheme + involving maildir-flags a-z; at least those can be synchronized ootb + by several tools. + +- Notmuch new currently only indexes one copy of a message, so two files + in different maildirs (i.e. a list and inbox) would be pretty much a + crapshoot which tags get applied. We intend to change this behaviour + eventually, but no one is working on it currently. + +- even if/when this behaviour changes, there is still the problem of + reconciling different tag mappings from several maildirs. + +On the other hand, maybe not much change to the notmuch core would be +needed to at least experiment with this, using e.g. hooks to +notmuch-insert and notmuch-new.