[PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

[Matthieu Lemerre]

> I think you guys may have a misunderstanding about how notmuch indexes
> mail.  Notmuch indexes multiple headers (To, From, Subject, Date) and
> the *entire* body of the message.  That's kind of the whole point.  In
> other words, messages don't have to have tags in order to be found.  

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Not at all. Tags are just a useful complement of information, that
allows to quickly exclude irrelevant results from your search (and
avoids some noisy disk activity). It is just that some of us like to
have all their archived mails "classified" in some way (i.e. by adding a
label or tag), which can be used as a complementary information to help
refine your search. If archiving with a label is seemless, there is no
harm in adding informations to your mail, and it can be a real help when
you don't remember well what you're searching.

Now when you consistently label all your mails, you just don't want to
have unclassified mails. That is what we meant by "mail you can't find".

Matthieu.