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* notmuch reindex wipes existing tags
@ 2020-05-04  7:25 Franz Fellner
  2020-05-04 10:30 ` David Bremner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Franz Fellner @ 2020-05-04  7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: notmuch

Hello,

I setup notmuch for my dad specifically for mass-extracting
pdf newspapers he receives.
When the pdf was stored successfully the message gets the 
tag attachments-extracted added.
Today I wanted to go further and make use of afew specifically
for mail moving to free up space on the IMAP server.
I initially ignored the List-Id feature but now wanted to make
use of it. Configured notmuch appropriately, configured afew.
Ran notmuch reindex.
And now all custom tags were wiped, especially attachments-extracted.
I now can't see if the pdf of a certain message was already saved.
This is 3 years of 5 newspapers a weak. I must delete the files
and re-extract them.

I did not expect that, especially after reading the man page
which doesn't warn about resetting tags.

So here my question:
Is this a bug or a feature?

Regards
Franz

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

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2020-05-04  7:25 notmuch reindex wipes existing tags Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 10:30 ` David Bremner
2020-05-04 12:39   ` Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 13:39     ` David Bremner
2020-05-04 14:00       ` [PATCH 1/2] test: known broken test for reindex tag preservation David Bremner
2020-05-04 14:00         ` [PATCH 2/2] lib: replace STRNCMP_LITERAL in __message_remove_indexed_terms David Bremner
2020-05-04 15:16           ` Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 14:16         ` [PATCH 1/2] test: known broken test for reindex tag preservation Tomi Ollila
2020-05-04 22:47           ` David Bremner

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