From: dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 12:34:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp2n9g2v.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87614ffl0t.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> David Mazieres <dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu> writes:
>> So my question remains, what's the easiest safe way to re-enable
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>> synchronize_flags after disabling it? (Safe meaning it won't change any
>> tags.) It could be that there's a very simple answer, in which case
>> sticking it in the man page might be nice.
>
> I can't think of a simple, safe, and fast answer.
Okay, thanks. At least I wasn't missing something obvious.
> 2) when the lastmod changes go in, it seems like you could run the first
> notmuch new after enabling tag synchonizing, and dump only the tag
> changes since a checkpoint lastmod value. This would allow rolling
> back the unwanted tag changes.
Indeed, one of many reasons I'm eagerly awaiting lastmod changes.
> [1]: see this potential test, if for some reason we wanted to
> guarantee this behaviours.
If we did want this, I'm assuming it would take the form of a new option
to notmuch new (--override-flags) which says to do the synchronization
in the other direction (Xapian -> Maildir)? There would be benefit to
having such a flag, but I don't know how hard it would be to implement,
so I can't do the cost/benefit analysis.
As a kind of aside, one reason people might want to synchronize flags is
for mobile device support. I don't regularly access my email from my
mobile phone, but on those rare occasions when I might need to, I set up
an IMAP server and use an imap client on the phone. I wonder if anyone
has thought about implementing an IMAP-ish server directly on top of
libnotmuch. (I say IMAP-ish because the obvious SEARCH command
implementation wouldn't be RFC3501-compliant, but who cares when notmuch
has something better.)
Does anyone else use both notmuch but also access email from a mobile
device? If so what do you do?
David
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2015-07-01 19:58 Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags dm-list-email-notmuch
2015-08-16 9:39 ` David Bremner
2015-08-16 9:52 ` David Mazieres
2015-08-16 12:57 ` David Bremner
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2015-08-16 19:34 ` dm-list-email-notmuch [this message]
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