[notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch-new: Respect maildir flags when importing a new message

[Sebastian Spaeth]

When importing a new mail do check for maildir tags and assign corresponding notmuch tags.

Based on a patch by Michiel Buddingh <michiel at michielbuddingh.net> and subsequently modified by Tim Stoakes, Stewart Smith, and Sebastian Spaeth (see mail thread around mail id:20100210031339.GH16686 at mail.rocksoft.com)

Do note that this will only add tags when importing a really new message, and will not do anything when detecting a file rename (although someone should really make it honor file renames as well). Deleteing an existing message in another IMAP client will therefore not trigger tagging (as it counts as a file rename).

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
---
I cleaned up the patch by Stewart Smith a bit more, but it's basically his last version of the patch. The biggest caveat is really that file renames won't cause any change. So this approach is really only part of the solution to sync with e.g. thunderbird usage.
 notmuch-new.c |   64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
index f25c71f..5a75950 100644
--- a/notmuch-new.c
+++ b/notmuch-new.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ typedef struct {
     int total_files;
     int processed_files;
     int added_messages;
+    notmuch_bool_t tag_maildir;
     struct timeval tv_start;
 
     _filename_list_t *removed_files;
@@ -169,6 +170,60 @@ _entries_resemble_maildir (struct dirent **entries, int count)
     return 0;
 }
 
+/* Tag new mail according to its Maildir attribute flags.
+ *
+ * Test if the mail file's filename contains any of the
+ * standard Maildir attributes, and translate these to
+ * the corresponding standard notmuch tags.
+ *
+ * If the message is not marked as 'seen', or if no
+ * flags are present, tag as 'inbox, unread'.
+ */
+static void
+derive_tags_from_maildir_flags (notmuch_message_t *message,
+                           const char * path)
+{
+    int seen = FALSE;
+    int end_of_flags = FALSE;
+    size_t l = strlen(path);
+
+    /* Non-experimental message flags start with this */
+    char * i = strstr(path, ":2,");
+    i = (i) ? i : strstr(path, "!2,"); /* This format is used on VFAT */
+    if (i != NULL) {
+   i += 3;
+   for (; i < (path + l) && !end_of_flags; i++) {
+       switch (*i) {
+       case 'F' :
+           notmuch_message_add_tag (message, "maildir::flagged");
+           break;
+       case 'R': /* replied */
+           notmuch_message_add_tag (message, "maildir::replied");
+           break;
+       case 'D':
+           notmuch_message_add_tag (message, "maildir::draft");
+           break;
+       case 'S': /* seen */
+           seen = TRUE;
+           break;
+       case 'T': /* trashed */
+           notmuch_message_add_tag (message, "maildir::trashed");
+           break;
+       case 'P': /* passed */
+           notmuch_message_add_tag (message, "maildir::forwarded");
+           break;
+       default:
+           end_of_flags = TRUE;
+           break;
+       }
+   }
+    }
+
+    if (i == NULL || !seen) {
+   tag_inbox_and_unread (message);
+    }
+}
+
 /* Examine 'path' recursively as follows:
  *
  *   o Ask the filesystem for the mtime of 'path' (fs_mtime)
@@ -299,6 +354,8 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
 	    strcmp (entry->d_name, ".notmuch") ==0)
 	{
 	    continue;
+	} else {
+	    state->tag_maildir = TRUE;
 	}
 
 	next = talloc_asprintf (notmuch, "%s/%s", path, entry->d_name);
@@ -412,7 +469,12 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
 	/* success */
 	case NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS:
 	    state->added_messages++;
-	    tag_inbox_and_unread (message);
+	    if (state->tag_maildir) {
+	      derive_tags_from_maildir_flags (message,
+					      entry->d_name);
+	    } else {
+	        tag_inbox_and_unread (message);
+	    }
 	    break;
 	/* Non-fatal issues (go on to next file) */
 	case NOTMUCH_STATUS_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID:
-- 
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