Re: Folder+tags

["inwit" <inwit@sindominio.net>]

Ok, I've been thinking more about tag-folder synchronisation and reading
everything I could. However, I need some guidance.

I think that maybe the cleanest way to go is to have an after-tag-hook
which, if the recently added tag corresponds with a folder (as produced
by afew's FolderNameFilter, for example), then moves the file of the
message to its corresponding folder. Does that make sense?

Another alternative is to write a new 'tag-n-move' function which would
do both things, calling 'mv' through 'shell-command'. What do you think? 

Salud,




On Wed Dec 23, 2020 at 12:53 PM CET, inwit wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is my first message so I'll start by congratulating all the
> community around notmuch. Great piece of work you have here!
>
> I guess that my question must have been surely asked before, but I can't
> seem to find it in the lists' archive. My excuses if it is the case that
> my search abilities have failed. It has happened before.
>
> So, what I'm trying is to have a notmuch system up and running while
> preserving my folder structure fully functional in the IMAP server. I
> know that most of you will agree that folders are a thing from the past,
> but the fact is that, in the past, I've devoted quite a lot of time to
> sort my mails, and now I have a 3-level subfolder structure which is
> hard-wired in my brain, so up to now sometimes I'm still keen to
> searching messages in their expected folders. I guess it's a matter of
> time until I abandon this scheme and dive fully into tag based email,
> but for the time being I'm afraid of losing that folder structure for
> good.
>
> Anyway, I've been reading all around the web about this, and the closest
> I got is using the aerc client, where I can configure a Maildir worker
> and a notmuch worker, being able to use the former for reading and
> classifying mail into folders and the later for tag-based searching.
> This works, but at the same time, no matter how exciting the development
> of aerc is (and it is a beautiful little piece of code), it is still
> very far from emacs mail-mode.
>
> What I would like to, then, is to use notmuch-el to read and classify my
> mail. And the functionality I'm missing at the moment is a way to move
> an email from the inbox to its corresponding folder, hopefully updating
> its folder tags at the same time. That is: I would (mb)sync my mail from
> my company's IMAP server to my Maildir folder structure, then I'd go to
> the Inbox tag/folder, I'd read my mail and then, by hitting Shift+m, for
> example, I'd be able to move that precise email, both in files and tags,
> to its corresponding Maildir folder, so my next call to mbsync actually
> moves the message in the IMAP server folders as well. Does that make
> sense? Does anyone know how would I get to something like that?
>
> Again, sorry if this is redundant, and congratulations on the good work.
>
> Salud,
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