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From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cli: add support for pre and post notmuch new
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On Sun,  4 Dec 2011 01:16:49 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Run notmuch new pre and post hooks, named "pre-new" and "post-new", if
> present in the notmuch hooks directory. The hooks will be run before and
> after incorporating new messages to the database.
> 
> Typical use cases for pre-new and post-new hooks are fetching or delivering
> new mail to the maildir, and custom tagging of the mail incorporated to the
> database.
> 
> Also add command line option --no-hooks to notmuch new to bypass the
> hooks.

A useful extension would be providing the list of added message-ids to the
post-new hook, one per line? Or maybe the script wants added, moved,
deleted ...

  Tom