Re: Using procmail to set tags

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+From: Robert Horn <rjhorn@alum.mit.edu>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+Subject: Re: Using procmail to set tags\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> On Tue, May 15 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+>   * execute notmuch new\r
+>   * use the environment variables in post-new hook \r
+>       (notmuch tags $NEW_TAGS -new tag:new)\r
+>\r
+Thanks to all, that gave me enough hints to make progress.\r
+\r
+It looks like adding a new tag in the config, "needsProcessing", and\r
+then a post-new hook to a script that I write should do the job.\r
+Instead of dealing an even more complex and arcane procmail setup, I\r
+write a script that runs as the post-new hook.  I'm finding the "new"\r
+flagging works correctly for simple mail drop from postfix, so the extra\r
+flag will work.  I don't want to work off "new" because that's also\r
+useful for mail reading and other uses.  The post-new hook can start by\r
+finding the emails that are tagged "needsProcessing", parse and tag them\r
+appropriately, and remove the needsProcessing tag.  It just needs to\r
+start with a query and be written to work on all the messages found, so it\r
+doesn't matter how many are new.\r
+\r
+At the moment it looks like a simple python script using the notmuch\r
+library binding may be easiest. If not, there are other tools to do the\r
+job.\r
+\r
+R Horn\r
+rjhorn@alum.mit.edu\r