From: Jani Nikula Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:24:44 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Re: synchronizing tag for cur/new location of mail X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70173bb52f688ef8aade662d5c90f2e18d97e848;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: synchronizing tag for cur/new location of mail --- diff --git a/2d/39f471876883dfab9f60cb6e53ae74e39dcd9e b/2d/39f471876883dfab9f60cb6e53ae74e39dcd9e new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0b6f19b89 --- /dev/null +++ b/2d/39f471876883dfab9f60cb6e53ae74e39dcd9e @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAEF5431FAE + for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:58 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.7 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id VxOKg8hspNjs for ; + Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:58 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com + [74.125.82.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client + certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id + 22DD0431FAF for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:57 -0700 + (PDT) +Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id dr13so6043782wgb.14 + for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:56 -0700 (PDT) +X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; + d=google.com; s=20120113; + h=x-received:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date + :message-id:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; + bh=qeua8fVjIU6vGhfmfOuVoJ/MbZp5LTvlL4hY6zq4DFc=; + b=pmn3yl7/CeNfV6MT8neUwYfTFkZTzGj4upmsnfNHfF9dn24Y6MnPVwgodn3qDLj1jo + F4WqV0fCn/TnEbknhC47f+kE9lSZThWl0FqF5mop37Jxx/RiXQ9iE3kcQFOAwA+ZI8b4 + KJ+2yWNGqBGllAkeI6zxT+wr5+1j1UfV9iXJclHjzgJTVR4j7I2FC5XeKQ+ZXHzXklu2 + 0gJBoIEENuiakowXK15ZTHT/4GcNvpzavMnPUTMJWadeOmRQOI6reN9v17AT/szCBaNQ + NmTEDAtwaR5QORj8camfFrUcPH9jF3lg6WNgEH4kZcuVxhrEorCHDXgR9RifkL5ss/c3 + bZ8g== +X-Received: by 10.194.62.170 with SMTP id z10mr25282289wjr.34.1363083895520; + Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:55 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from localhost ([2001:4b98:dc0:43:216:3eff:fe1b:25f3]) + by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm26317149wie.0.2013.03.12.03.24.53 + (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); + Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:24:54 -0700 (PDT) +From: Jani Nikula +To: Daniel , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: synchronizing tag for cur/new location of mail +In-Reply-To: +References: +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.2+34~ga90fdd9 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:24:44 +0100 +Message-ID: <871ubkdifn.fsf@nikula.org> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Gm-Message-State: + ALoCoQm3stsh9a5U2nVqoAAamWA6FbqjWKaKwRoyZsvKkI9tSjJvGTQGry9xhwKLswwQqF7oZRC3 +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:24:59 -0000 + +On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Daniel wrote: +> Is there currently no automatic tag that reflects whether a mail was +> found in folder/cur or folder/new? The "unread" tag properly reflects +> the maildir ",S" flag, but the one named "new" doesn't seem to be +> automatic in any way, right? + +That's correct, there's no such automatic tag. + +The "new" tag is in no way special to notmuch. It's just a typically +used temp tag, usually added by 'notmuch new' based on the user's +new.tags config, and removed by the user's post-new hook. + +> I mostly use notmuch as a search backend to mutt, and it certainly is +> very useful. Though since I started feeding rss to maildir, I would like +> the idea of presenting somewhere in my system a list of new and "unseen" +> mails (in the mutt sense, kind of, which you might be familiar with). + +>From notmuch perspective the difference between "new" and "cur" is just +that the message files in "new" have no maildir flags set, and once +maildir flags are set, they are moved to "cur". No additional semantics +is applied to the file location. + +> Presently this seems impossible. + +A search for folder:new might be helpful, depending on your setup. + +It seems that you may get surprising results if you have more than one +file with the same message-id, and some of those files are in "new" and +some in "cur". (Any code to support automatic "new" tag would have to +handle this too.) + + +HTH, +Jani.