From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:38:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egctyfbd.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160203153250.56aa0b2b@dorje.v103.te2000>
Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz> writes:
>
> Every such maildir extension out there that I know of was invented for
> some specific application. Out of the two documented formats there are,
> the dovecot-keywords file is:
>
> 1) more limited (26 tags maximum)
> 2) simpler to implement, especially wrt. detecting changes
> 3) usable out of the box with some tools, as you noted
Actually, I just mean the extra maildir flags. I guess only the dovecot
sync tool syncs dovecot-keywords. And I don't think "notmuch+dsync
users" is a very big group, fwiw.
>> On the other hand, maybe not much change to the notmuch core would be
>> needed to at least experiment with this, using e.g. hooks to
>> notmuch-insert and notmuch-new.
>
> I was pondering this before and would find it rather neat, but it is
> bit more complicated than it might first seem. The hook needs to be
> able to add arbitrary files to be watched for changes and deduce from
> that which files need their tags re-read.
perhaps lastmod: queries can help here. that's more or less what they
added for.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-03 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 2:16 [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags Igor Almeida
2015-11-26 2:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] David Bremner's patch for custom maildir flags Igor Almeida
2015-11-26 2:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] notmuch new: tag messages based on maildir custom flags Igor Almeida
2015-11-26 2:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] notmuch new: sync maildir custom flag user configuration Igor Almeida
2016-01-10 13:59 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Maildir custom flags and notmuch tags David Bremner
2016-02-02 16:52 ` Jan Pobrislo
2016-02-03 12:03 ` David Bremner
2016-02-03 14:32 ` Jan Pobrislo
2016-02-03 15:38 ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-02-03 15:39 ` David Bremner
2016-02-03 16:00 ` Jan Pobrislo
[not found] ` <20160203165650.4ae528c1@dorje.v103.te2000>
2016-02-03 16:04 ` David Bremner
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