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39 To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>,
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41 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Respect maildir flags when
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42 importing a new message
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65 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
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66 > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:28:56 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
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67 > > When importing a new mail do check for maildir tags and assign
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68 > > corresponding notmuch tags.
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70 > I think this is a useful thing to support, as obviously new users have
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71 > *some* state that's interesting to import (which messages have been
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72 > "seen" for example), and simply importing their entire email archive
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73 > with both the "inbox" and "unread" tags is not helpful. So I'd like to
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74 > figure out how to support this.
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76 I'm solving this in my mailstore abstraction patches. I'll send the next
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79 > > Do note that this will only add tags when importing a really new
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80 > > message, and will not do anything when detecting a file rename
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81 > > (although someone should really make it honor file renames as
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82 > > well). Deleteing an existing message in another IMAP client will
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83 > > therefore not trigger tagging (as it counts as a file rename).
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85 > But I think we really need to fix that if we're going to claim that
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86 > notmuch "supports maildir flags" in any sense.
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88 > It's a fairly tricky issue though since we can have multiple files that
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89 > have the same message ID, but then have different maildir flags. And
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90 > it's the matter of arbitrary ordering which one of these files appears
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91 > as "new" and which one appears as a "rename".
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93 Yes, that's a problem. It is not currently solved in my pacthes, but I
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94 have one solution in my mind. Let's discuss this with my patch.
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96 > It's not obvious to me what we can do here unless we make some
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97 > assumptions, (such as "mails always start without the seen flag, and
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98 > once it appears it can't be removed" or so). But I'd love some input
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99 > From someone who's thought harder about this than I have.
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