From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D2C431FBD for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HE7kz+icdUHv for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: delayed 1177 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:34 PDT Received: from l2mail1.panix.com (l2mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.75]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C218E431FBC for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by l2mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86C117 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:34:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from quad.robs.office (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F71334959 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:34:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Horn To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Using procmail to set tags User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:34:55 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:54:35 -0000 Is it practical (and has anyone documented) using a procmail setup to set initial tags for messages using notmuch? I've just started using emacs-notmuch to read mail, and I'm using a system where I have procmail filters to bin mail by category into folders. I can continue this using folder:value for searching, but one reason notmuch interests me is the potential to do more. It's practical for me to assign potentially overlapping tags with a more sophisticated procmail setup. Notmuch tags enable having multiple tags on one email. I don't know enough about the procmail/notmuch process to see just how to make this happen. I'm hoping that someone has already done something similar. R Horn rjhorn@alum.mit.edu