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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Mazieres expires 2015-09-29 PDT
	<mazieres-n9pds38v5xanvju7995wf543cw@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:39:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3n3fu7d.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3orbqfn.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu>

dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu writes:

> It seems that disabling it should simply be safe.  But re-enabling, one
> risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags
> to override the xapian database.  So that suggests something like:
>
>    notmuch dump > backup
>    notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
>    # Do I need to run notmuch new here?
>    notmuch restore < backup

Hi David;

Sorry about the long delay. I'm not sure I follow the connection between
your paragraph above and the the example. The example seems safe, but as
you say, disabling synching should bs safe anyway.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-16  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 19:58 Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags dm-list-email-notmuch
2015-08-16  9:39 ` David Bremner [this message]
2015-08-16  9:52   ` David Mazieres
2015-08-16 12:57     ` David Bremner
     [not found]       ` <87vbcf9ge1.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu>
2015-08-16 19:34         ` dm-list-email-notmuch

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