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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Robert Horn <rjhorn@alum.mit.edu>\r
+Subject: Re: Using procmail to set tags\r
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+Quoth Robert Horn on May 14 at 7:34 pm:\r
+> Is it practical (and has anyone documented) using a procmail setup to\r
+> set initial tags for messages using notmuch?\r
+> \r
+> I've just started using emacs-notmuch to read mail, and I'm using a\r
+> system where I have procmail filters to bin mail by category into\r
+> folders. I can continue this using folder:value for searching, but one\r
+> reason notmuch interests me is the potential to do more.\r
+> \r
+> It's practical for me to assign potentially overlapping tags with a more\r
+> sophisticated procmail setup. Notmuch tags enable having multiple tags\r
+> on one email.\r
+> \r
+> I don't know enough about the procmail/notmuch process to see just how\r
+> to make this happen. I'm hoping that someone has already done something\r
+> similar.\r
+\r
+I second Jani's suggestion of using notmuch tag commands from\r
+notmuch's post-new hook if possible (or switching to using searches\r
+instead of tags where that makes sense). However, if you really need\r
+the flexibility of procmail, I can think of two solutions:\r
+\r
+You can let procmail deliver to folders, like usual, and then use\r
+ notmuch tag tag:inbox folder:X +/-tags\r
+in notmuch's post-new hook to apply tags based on folders (you might\r
+want to add the tag 'new' to your new.tags in ~/.notmuch-config and\r
+filter on tag:new instead of tag:inbox). If you need multiple tags on\r
+a message, let procmail deliver it to multiple folders.\r
+\r
+Alternatively, you can have procmail record the message ID and desired\r
+tags of the message in a file and then apply those recorded tags in\r
+your post-new hook. This would achieve the tagging you want more\r
+directly, without mixing in folders and multiple delivery. The\r
+difficulty would be getting a message ID you could later use in an id:\r
+query. Simply grabbing the value of the message-id header would work\r
+most of the time, but there's a fair bit of logic for dealing with\r
+strangely formed or completely malformed message-id headers\r
+(see _parse_message_id).\r
+\r
+As far as I know, nobody has tried my second suggestion. Most people\r
+just switch to using notmuch queries (either to tag or simply to\r
+search).\r
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