From 6f9f2b504aa7d05e3cd95cbb41575a86a9cd5060 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomi Ollila Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:43:31 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Re: Using procmail to set tags --- e5/4de6c44f80bb7e818358125e132f6411e1a363 | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 e5/4de6c44f80bb7e818358125e132f6411e1a363 diff --git a/e5/4de6c44f80bb7e818358125e132f6411e1a363 b/e5/4de6c44f80bb7e818358125e132f6411e1a363 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a797af208 --- /dev/null +++ b/e5/4de6c44f80bb7e818358125e132f6411e1a363 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +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 25D39431FB6 + for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 06:49:09 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + 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 GoVfa+jf8U8O for ; + Tue, 15 May 2012 06:49:08 -0700 (PDT) +X-Greylist: delayed 345 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; + Tue, 15 May 2012 06:49:07 PDT +Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB62D431FAE + for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 06:49:07 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix, from userid 501) + id AB0BD10063A; Tue, 15 May 2012 16:43:31 +0300 (EEST) +From: Tomi Ollila +To: Austin Clements , Robert Horn +Subject: Re: Using procmail to set tags +In-Reply-To: <20120515132238.GO11804@mit.edu> +References: <20120515132238.GO11804@mit.edu> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.13~rc1+22~g672e3f0 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 + (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) +X-Face: HhBM'cA~ +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +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, 15 May 2012 13:49:09 -0000 + +On Tue, May 15 2012, Austin Clements wrote: + +> +> Alternatively, you can have procmail record the message ID and desired +> tags of the message in a file and then apply those recorded tags in +> your post-new hook. This would achieve the tagging you want more +> directly, without mixing in folders and multiple delivery. The +> difficulty would be getting a message ID you could later use in an id: +> query. Simply grabbing the value of the message-id header would work +> most of the time, but there's a fair bit of logic for dealing with +> strangely formed or completely malformed message-id headers +> (see _parse_message_id). + +If procmail is delivering one mail at a time (without parallerism) and +notmuch new is executed after each email delivered one could try + + * put desired tags into environment (export NEW_TAGS='+foo +bar') + * execute notmuch new + * use the environment variables in post-new hook + (notmuch tags $NEW_TAGS -new tag:new) + +The risk with this approach (when not recording message-id) is that there +ie not just one new mail (with 'new' tag) delivered... + +Then I sidedtacked to... wouldn't something like + notmuch new + - [path/to/filename] +be so cool... ;) (yes, so non-trivial...) + +> +> As far as I know, nobody has tried my second suggestion. Most people +> just switch to using notmuch queries (either to tag or simply to +> search). + +Tomi -- 2.26.2