> Quoth Michal Nazarewicz on Aug 03 at 4:29 pm: >> I've just started using notmuch and am wondering if there is a way to >> make message “inherit” some of the tags from messages they are written >> in replay to (or in general are part of the same thread). >> >> I'm mostly thinking about a “mute” tag which I'd add to messages that >> are completely uninteresting to me. With the “inheritance” mechanism, >> I'd be able to make notmuch automatically mute all the replays within >> the same thread. Austin Clements writes: > I have a hacky and now ancient patch series that you're welcome to try > porting to a recent notmuch on the inheritable-tags-hack branch at > http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git > One general problem with this approach is dealing with threads whose > messages arrive or are ingested out of order. I don't think this is > an insurmountable problem, but my patch certainly doesn't handle it > correctly. I'll keep that in mind, but lack of time, won't probably let me play with it... > There are also several other solutions to "mute" tags around. For > example, some people use a post-new hook to search for threads that > contain at least one mute tag and then feed these thread IDs back in > to notmuch tag to add the mute tag to everything in the thread. I > believe this is also the approach used by the afew tagging system for > "killed" threads. Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. Basically “notmuch search --output=threads is:mute” and then join all the lines with “or” to finally do “notmuch tag +mute ”. I was, however, hoping for something more dedicated. -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Michał “mina86” Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo--