Question : Tag mail according to it directory path ?

Question : Tag mail according to it directory path ?

[emmanuel.leblond]

Hi there !
I'm looking for using notmuch as my regular MUA, but I have a trouble so far.

I have a 4000+ mail collection already sorted in folders. The point is I would 
like to tag those mails through the notmuch database according to those 
folders. (i.g. the mails in the friend/foo directory will be tagged as friend 
and foo)

Is there any way to do this easily or should I make a quick'n dirty script to 
do the job ? (i.e. cat each mail of a folder, sed to get subject/receivers ect 
and do a notmuch search and tag with those arguments)

Regards

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G.bleu

Re: Question : Tag mail according to it directory path ?

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:59:09 +0100, emmanuel.leblond@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I have a 4000+ mail collection already sorted in folders. The point is I would 
> like to tag those mails through the notmuch database according to those 
> folders. (i.g. the mails in the friend/foo directory will be tagged as friend 
> and foo)

Hi, Emanuel.  There is already the ability to search for messages by
path with the "folder:" search prefix.  From "notmuch help search-terms":

	The folder: prefix can be used to search for email message
	files that are contained within particular directories within
	the mail store. Only the directory components below the top-level
	mail database path are available to be searched.

You can then easily apply arbitrary tags with something like:

notmuch tag +foo -- folder:foo

hth.

jamie.

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Re: Question : Tag mail according to it directory path ?

[Emmanuel Leblond]

Thanks for the answer, it's exactly what I was looking for !

Regards

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G.bleu