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+From: "Sander Boer" <sanboer@gmail.com>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>\r
+Subject: Re: notmuch Digest, Vol 20, Issue 57\r
+Organization: From the desk of Sander Boer\r
+References: <mailman.5.1309146869.12973.notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+ <cuozkl367o2.fsf@mauc.nl> <87wrg5905c.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>\r
+Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:43:52 +0200\r
+In-Reply-To: <87wrg5905c.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of\r
+ "Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:22:23 -0700")\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:> \r
+\r
+[snip]\r
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+> First, it's important to understand that any friction here comes from\r
+> Gmail exposing its tags as folders, (which in turn could be the lack of\r
+> availability of a more tag-aware protocol than imap).\r
+>\r
+\r
+I agree that this is the key issue here. \r
+I was hoping that google somehow was able to expose the tags in the "All\r
+Mail" folder, like the headers that are gmail specific: X-pstn-nxpr and X-pstn-nxp (which contains a\r
+hash) for instance.\r
+\r
+\r
+> So, let's say you've done an imap-based fetch of all of your mail and\r
+> now have it in several folders corresponding to the various tags you\r
+> made in the Gmail interface, (and you've run "notmuch new" to create a\r
+> notmuch database of all of that).\r
+>\r
+> At that point, you can search (with current notmuch from git---and soon\r
+> to be released as notmuch 0.6) on the folder names. This allows you to\r
+> do a search based on a Gmail tag. For example, you might have an\r
+> "important" tag in Gmail which you could search with:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch search folder:important\r
+>\r
+ah, I have the ubuntu version, will update to git soon.\r
+\r
+\r
+> If you wanted to make an actual notmuch tag based on those search\r
+> results, you could do that as well:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch tag +important folder:important\r
+>\r
+> And you could even do that on a regular basis, (for example in some\r
+> script that sucks down new email from Gmail). In this case you might\r
+> want to avoid re-tagging pre-tagged mail by amending the search terms:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch tag +important folder:important and not tag:important\r
+>\r
+> (Note that this is an optimization that notmuch could be making\r
+> automatically, and that's something I'd love to see happen in notmuch at\r
+> some point.)\r
+>\r
+> Hopefully it's clear enough that you could do the above in a script that\r
+> loops over all of your existing tags.\r
+>\r
+> And if you were doing a one-time switch from Gmail to notmuch that would\r
+> be all you would need.\r
+>\r
+> I don't know if you're looking to also push tags added via some notmuch\r
+> interface back to Gmail, (does Gmail even provide a mechanism for doing\r
+> that?). If so, then you'd need something that took notmuch tags and made\r
+> copies of the message in the appropriate files. That would hopefully be\r
+> easy to script based on the output of:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch search --output=files tag:important\r
+>\r
+> I think my short answer is that it's fairly easy to convert from Gmail\r
+> tags to notmuch tags as part of a one-time import. Doing this on a\r
+> continual basis might benefit from writing a few scripts, and I don't\r
+> know if anyone has written those scripts yet.\r
+>\r
+> Would any Gmail+notmuch users care to add anything to the conversation?\r
+>\r
+> -Carl\r
+\r
+\r
+now using gnus still, b/c notmuch does not build for the N900 (bummer)\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Sander Boer\r
+\r
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