Better Gmail handling by not using Notmuch tags

[Michal Nazarewicz]

On Fri, Sep 14 2012, Mark Anderson wrote:
> You might want to take this chance to make your tag cloud coherent
> between Notmuch and what exists in the folders, which works out to
> something like this for every tag/folder pair in your gmail IMAP
> directory (assuming it's synced to a Maildir repository) and notmuch DB.
>
>   notmuch tag +TagX folder:FolderX and not tag:TagX 

I guess adding “and tag:new” won't hurt.

> When I see TagX in notmuch, and using FolderX as the proxy for Gmail
> tags, then I assume that the user added TagX in notmuch and I need to
> synchronize the change.  This one is a bit trickier.
>
>   notmuch search --output=files tag:TagX and not folder:FolderX 
>
> will give me the list of filenames, but I need to add them to a folder,
> so it's time for bash, or your favorite script language.  Spaces in
> filenames or tags are your bane here, then you'll want to do something
> fancier than just the $() interpolation.
>
> notmuch search --output=files tag:notmuch and not folder:notmuch |
> xargs perl -e'while (defined($_ = shift(@ARGV))) {my $file =
> filename($_); system("cp $_ $MAILDIR/notmuch/cur/$file");}'

(You've mised FolderX in the cp command).

What's wrong with

	notmuch search --output=files ... |
		xargs --no-run-if-empty \
		cp -t "$MAILDIR/notmuch/FolderX/cur/" --

expect that --no-run-if-empty is not POSIX and I'm not sure about -t.

I'm also wondering if it would make sense to link the files instead of
copying:

	notmuch search --output=files ... |
		xargs --no-run-if-empty \
		ln -t "$MAILDIR/notmuch/FolderX/cur/" --

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