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Jeremy Nickurak <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca> writes:


> The other direction sounds like it would be trickier though, since there's
> no obvious way to say "what notmuch tags have changed since time X?". Is
> this something that notmuch could provide?

Not currently, but there have been patches proposed; see e.g.

    id:1323796305-28789-1-git-send-email-schnouki@schnouki.net

> Alternatively, would it be a good idea to give notmuch a tags-changed hook,
> so that an external tool could be called on a tag change? That sounds like
> would solve this problem, keep the gmail/imap logic safely away from
> notmuch, and probably provide some really interesting other opportunities
> for automation of things by tags.

See the thread at 

    id:1342503373-16979-1-git-send-email-dominik@with-h.at

for some patches and discussion.