From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
To: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>,
Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: (auto-)tagging sent messages
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:53:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp04ix2n.fsf@A7GMS.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjtij8zj.fsf@hermes.hocat.ca>
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:23:44 -0400, Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> wrote:
> > > Further, for certain mails I sent (like this one ) I would like a
> > > WAITING tag (or similar) in order to indicate that I am waiting for an
> > > answer. Currently I set this manually. Could this be achieved through
> > > some indicators via message mode or similar means? e.g.:
> > >
> > > <#notmuch tag=WAITING> analog to <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
> >
> > No idea how this works since I don't follow Jameson's crypto branch,
> > but it's probably not a good idea for this use case since (I presume)
> > the indicator will become permanently lodged in the content of the
> > mail, which isn't where highly volatile metadata belongs.
>
> I think the idea isn't to save it in the message, but to postprocess the
> message when sending, remove the marker and add the tag instead.
>
> Tom
Seems like a Catch-22 to me.
The marker needs to remain there long enough for Notmuch to index and
tag the message appropriately (which happens long after message-mode has
left the building) so it's up to Notmuch itself (as opposed to a
message-mode hook) to do the pre-/postprocessing.
Yet it remains Notmuch's policy to *never* alter your mailstore, aside
from Maildir flags.
This would also invite outsiders to sprinkle their mails with "<#notmuch
tag=WAITING>", messing up you workflow.
Peace
-Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-17 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-14 8:03 (auto-)tagging sent messages Florian Friesdorf
2011-04-16 12:57 ` Pieter Praet
2011-04-16 19:23 ` Tom Prince
2011-04-17 17:53 ` Pieter Praet [this message]
2011-04-17 23:17 ` Tom Prince
2011-04-18 6:40 ` Pieter Praet
2011-04-17 18:23 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-04-18 20:26 ` Austin Clements
2011-04-26 2:38 ` servilio
2011-04-16 22:44 ` Michael Radziej
2011-04-18 13:22 ` Xavier Maillard
2011-04-18 18:44 ` Michael Radziej
2011-04-18 19:29 ` Xavier Maillard
2011-04-19 10:18 ` Michael Radziej
2011-04-20 12:20 ` Xavier Maillard
2011-04-25 20:27 ` Carl Worth
2011-04-25 20:56 ` Tim Gray
2011-04-25 21:41 ` Carl Worth
2011-04-25 21:59 ` tracking non-mail files [was: Re: (auto-)tagging sent messages] Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-04-25 22:28 ` Carl Worth
2011-04-25 22:25 ` (auto-)tagging sent messages Xavier Maillard
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