Tagging strategy and latest notmuch

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

my mail workflow is pretty /basic/ and /raw/. Here it is:

1a. notmuch new (for consistency sake)
1b. notmuchsync syncs from notmuch tags to my maildir flags (actually, it is to
prune is:delete tagged messages)
2. offlineimap syncs with my imap server
3. notmuch new incorporate new messages into the database
4. notmuchsync syncs from my maildirs flags to notmuch
5. (at last) a shell-script is testing/tagging all my messages corpus

This is a solution I am using for months but I am pretty sure it is not
adapted with latest notmuch. Sadly I could not follow the recent feature
additions (and reading through NEWS file or the wiki is not really
helping).

So what I am looking for is a "modern" solution to replace my current
strategy not really /scalable/ -i.e incorporating new mails is really
getting slower each day- and most importantly I really need to reduce
time taken to tag new material. Currently, my tagging script processes
all my notmuch database even if only new mails are really tagged, it has
to test each message to sort out what messages need tags; tagging only
new mail would be really awesome.

By the way, I am using 0.10.x.

Thank you

/Xavier