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 9A328421192 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:02:33 -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 CfFU6CsFoz8o for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kaylee.flamingspork.com (kaylee.flamingspork.com [74.207.245.61]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201D0421186 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from willster (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kaylee.flamingspork.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7588860B2; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by willster (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E9F3C3077D07; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:02:34 +1000 (EST) From: Stewart Smith To: Carl Worth , Brian May , Notmuch Mail Subject: Re: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot In-Reply-To: <874o37513c.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> References: <86iproe86u.fsf@greenrd.plus.com> <87fwms45xz.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <874o37513c.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.5-215-g5143e5e (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:02:34 +1000 Message-ID: <87k4c2hqid.fsf@flamingspork.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:02:33 -0000 On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:40:07 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > This means that messages can lose the "unread" tag while still remaining > tagged "inbox", (you read a message, but don't archive it), and that > messages can lose the "archive" tag while still remaining tagged > "unread", (you archive a thread before reading all messages in the > thread). > > The distinction ends up being useful to me. If at some point someone > points me to a specific message, and when I search for it I see the > "unread" tag, then this highlights to me that I never even looked at the > message. IMHO this is one of the awesome things about notmuch (and I've actively used it to go back on conversations I previously ignored) -- Stewart Smith