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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags
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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