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44 To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
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45 Subject: Re: Add support for specifying tags during "notmuch new"
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75 On Fri, May 02 2014, Austin Clements wrote:
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76 >> 2) A periodic mail processing script wants to add new messages to
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77 >> the database, then process those newly added messages to add
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78 >> convenience tags, etc. without worrying about the user or other
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79 >> instances of the script manipulating tags at the same time. Use
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82 >> notmuch new +$KEY
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83 >> notmuch tag +notmuch tag:$KEY and to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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84 >> notmuch tag +gnus tag:$KEY and to:ding@gnus.org
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86 >> notmuch tag -$KEY tag:$KEY
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88 > What happens when this script dies in the middle (say, your computer
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89 > loses power or notmuch tag conflicts with something else on the write
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92 It's a problem. I think that I would actually add both 'new' and
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93 'new-$seconds' tags (given that I can't search on wildcarded tags) and
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94 have 'notmuch tag' use only 'new-$seconds'.
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96 The 'new' tag would help recover from failures such as you describe.
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98 > One advantage of the standard "new" tag approach is that it's easy to
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99 > write a stateless post-new tagging script that can be killed at any
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100 > point and restarted. (You're right that post-new has a concurrency
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101 > issue, but we should fix that in its own right.)
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