[notmuch] Introducing notmuchsync
Jameson Rollins
jrollins at finestructure.net
Tue Jan 19 08:04:49 PST 2010
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> That is why I have coded my notmuchsync tool. It does all that. While I
> agree that notmuch should probably (and faster) do all that itself, the
> current design seems to be to keep notmuch flexible, small and to never touch
> your mailstore. Until that changes, surrounding scripts will have to
> perform these tasks.
I should have mentioned in my previous mail that I think this tool is
a great idea, and I plan on using it. I just hope that all of it's
functionality will be integrated directly into notmuch itself.
That said, I have vasilated just a bit on this, as to whether notmuch
should touch the mail at all, or just process it. But having thought
about it a bit, I think that notmuch really *is* an MUA, or at least
the mail processing part of a MUA (MUA minus message reader), and
should therefore do the appropriate things with the maildir.
> My current synchronization script looks basically like this:
>
> notmuch new # make db consistent (earlier deleted mails etc)
> notmuchsync -s -n # MailDir flags update and "cur" dir moving
> offlineimap # sync with IMAP server
> notmuch new # incorporate new mails in notmuch db
Do you do another notmuchsync after the final notmuch new, to get any
new flags in the maildir synced with the database?
jamie.
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