From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2DD431FB6 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:20 -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 WpgvgbkTOF+F for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: delayed 557 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:19 PDT Received: from smtp.univmed.fr (smtp.univmed.fr [139.124.132.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B14B3431FAE for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dra13-2-82-237-244-11.fbx.proxad.net [82.237.244.11]) by smtp.univmed.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52C7D2003E; Sat, 19 May 2012 17:39:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 17:40:43 +0200 From: Emmanuel Beffara To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: tagging moved messages Message-ID: <20120519154043.GA7220@chantourne> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Miltered: at smtp.univmed.fr with ID 4FB7BECF.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4FB7BECF.000/82.237.244.11/dra13-2-82-237-244-11.fbx.proxad.net/localhost/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 4FB7BECF.000 on smtp.univmed.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=## B=0.010 -> S=0.016 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham 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: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:49:20 -0000 Hello, What would be the proper way of automatically tagging messages whose file has been renamed? My use case is the following: In order to have some synchronization of tags between several machines, I use folders on the IMAP server. The idea is simply that messages tagged "foo" are actually moved to a folder "foo". The same applies to the "inbox" tag, and as an exception, messages in a folder named "saved" are those with no tags. Of course this excludes having several tags on a given message (except for the special tags like "unread" and "signed"), but it does fit my needs for now. The post-new hook says this: #!/bin/sh for FOLDER in * do case $FOLDER in INBOX) TAG=inbox ;; Drafts) TAG=draft ;; Trash) TAG=killed ;; saved) continue ;; *) TAG=$FOLDER esac notmuch tag -$TAG -- tag:$TAG not folder:$FOLDER notmuch tag +$TAG -- folder:$FOLDER not tag:$TAG done It does work but it is rather slow: 8 seconds, for a collection of 16000 messages. I can live with that but it does involve browsing the whole collection for each tag. Having a tag on all moved messages, like for the new ones, would dramatically improve this process. Besides, the "folder:" prefix is not an exact search, so the above does not work well if one folder name is part of another, like if I had a folder "bar" and a folder "foo.bar". Is there a way around this? I have another script called "pre-sync" that moves messages to folders according to their tags. This one is called before offlineimap does the full actual synchronization (calling notmuch new after that). I welcome any comments on my usage pattern, as there may well be better approaches I didn't think of... -- Emmanuel