[PATCH] Add configurable changed tag to messages that have been changed on disk

[Gaute Hope]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:42 PM, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> Gaute Hope <eg at gaute.vetsj.com> writes:
>
> > When one of the source files for a message is changed on disk, renamed,
> > deleted or a new source file is added. A configurable changed tag is
> > is added. The tag can be configured under the option 'changed_tags' in
> > the [new] section, the default is none. Tests have been updated to
> > accept the new config option.
> >
> > notmuch-setup now asks for a changed tag after the new tags question.
> >
> > This could be useful for for example 'afew' to detect remote changes in
> > IMAP folders and update the FolderNameFilter to also add tags or remove
> > tags when a _existing_ message has been added to or removed from a
> > maildir.
>
> The discussion on this proposal seems to have died out without reaching
> a conclusion. David M expressed a strong preference for some kind of
> modification time field in the database.  Gaute agreed with some caveats
> that such an approach could solve his problems as well. On the other
> hand, nobody seems to be actually working on such an approach at the
> moment.  Gaute and or David do you have any interest in revisiting the
> series id:1323796305-28789-1-git-send-email-schnouki at schnouki.net and
> seeing if it can be reworked into mergeable shape? I suspect in
> particular something needs to be added with respect to message deletion
> Thomas, are you still running some variant of these patches?
>
> d
>

I am afraid I don't have the chance to put in any consistent effort on this
at the moment.

I agree, message deletion needs to be solved somehow.

Regards, Gaute
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