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To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:58:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3orbqfn.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> (raw)
Sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but I'm wondering: What
is the best way to enable and disable maildir.synchronize_flags?
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
Is that safe? The man page suggests one additionally need to run
notmuch new before running notmuch restore. All of this is pretty slow.
Is there a more efficient way?
A one or two sentence clarification in the notmuch-config man page might
be helpful to people contemplating playing with this switch. The
default is on, to I suspect it costs a lot of performance. I've been
afraid to turn it off for fear that I won't be able to undo this
cleanly.
Thanks,
David
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-01 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-01 19:58 dm-list-email-notmuch [this message]
2015-08-16 9:39 ` Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags David Bremner
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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