[notmuch] Introducing notmuchsync
Sebastian Spaeth
Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Mon Jan 18 07:12:28 PST 2010
Dear list,
I really want to sync my maildir flags/folders with notmuch tags and as
I haven't seen a script to do that, I've written (the beginnings of?)
one.
It is probably pre-alpha but I am a fan of release early, release often
and if someone finds it useful to build upon, it was already worth it. I
put the code here: http://github.com/spaetz/notmuchsync
What does it do?
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- Synchronizes the "S" flag with the "unread" tag (1-way). The
synchronization direction is decided by using either --sync (change
maildir flags according to notmuch) or --revsync (change notmuch tags according to maildir). By default it always checks the mails from the previous 30
days (but can also do --all mails if you have plenty of RAM and time).
- Deletes all mail files that have the "delete" tag
- Quiet/normal/verbose logging
Workflow
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1a) start out with notmuchsync -r in order to initialize the notmuch tag
database based on maildir 'S' flags. This is probably what everyone but
Carl Worth wants. :-) If the "--all" command works for you, even better,
but I doubt it as it would store all your mails in RAM.
1b) start out with not
What needs improvment
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- It's a python script in one file. The architecture might need some
cleanup. Documentation needs work too.
- It temporarily slurps in all your mails from the last 30 days into
RAM. I am waiting for "notmuchs show blah --output filename --output
tags" to improve that :). Generally the parsing of the output of
"notmuch show" is a bit hackyish with regexps at the moment.
- Support parsing "chunks" of "notmuch show" output or do several
runs for -all, using monthly intervals to make --all work.
- Support for the "T" (delete), "F" (flag), "D" (draft) tags/flags.
Should be pretty easy to add.
- Support syncing of the "inbox" tag if the mail is in a dir different
than INBOX. No clue yet how to do. Perhaps if a maildir name
corresponds to a notmuch tag name, we move the mail there?
- It seems to work for me, but is untested in environments with spaces
in paths and windows machines.
- the --doeverything command that prunes and syncs in one go
What else
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- It is GPL v2.1+
- Please improve and/or fork this thing.
- If you don't like it, just ignore it. Thanks for your understanding.
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Usage:
-p --prune Prune deleted mails
-s --sync Sync from notmuch tags to maildir flags.
By default it will only look for mails from the last 30 days.
Use --all to look at earlier mails.
Beware, if timestamps are more than 30 days in the
future,
we won't handle it.
-r --revsync Sync tags from maildir to notmuch. See also -s.
Options:
-d Really verbose debug oputput.
-q Log only errors.
--dryrun Do not really modify notmuch db or mail files
Works together with -p -s -r
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Let me know what you like or don't. If you want github contributor
right, I am willing to hand out access quite liberal. And as always:
patches welcome. :-)
spaetz
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