[notmuch] [PATCH 3/4] Add maildir-based mailstore

[Ruben Pollan]

On 14:35, Tue 23 Mar 10, Michal Sojka wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Ruben Pollan wrote:
> > On 16:39, Thu 18 Mar 10, Michal Sojka wrote:
> > > This mailstore allows bi-directional synchronization between maildir
> > > flags and certain tags. The flag-to-tag mapping is defined by flag2tag
> > > array.
> > 
> > I'm trying it, the synchronization from my maildir to notmuch seems to work fine
> > except for the "unread" tag, it is never set. I use normally my maildir with
> > mutt, so the unread messages are on mail_folder/new. Could that be the problem?
> > is it a bug or something I do wrong?
> 
> Yes, that's a bug. Messages in your mail_folder/new probably don't have
> any 'info' (flags) in their filename, which is correct with respect to
> http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html. My patch incorrectly ignores the
> files without 'info'. I didn't catch this error because is seems that
> offlineimap puts 'info' part even to messages in new/.

True, I use fetchmail for download my email, it put the email in the new folder
without 'info'.

> I think that the correct fix for this is to change how notmuch new
> works: Whenever a message in new/ is found, it will be moved to cur/ and
> in there is no info part it will be appended and the message will be
> tagged accordingly.

I think is better if new keeps the email where it is, only updates the database,
and when you remove the unread tag move the message from folder to folder. Some 
mail readers (at least mutt) handles different the emails on the new folder than
the ones with no "S" flag con cur folder.

> I'll try to implement it and send a new patch.

That will be nice.


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