finding incoming messages in threads in which i've participated [was: Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave]

[David Bremner]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>
> For example, would it make sense to have "notmuch new" (and "notmuch
> insert") do "thread-based propagation" of specific tags?  for example,
> consider the following (i've just made up the config options):
>
>     notmuch config set new.from_self_tags participated
>     notmuch config set new.propagate_thread_tags participated
>
> the idea is that "new.from_self_tags" would be applied by "notmuch new" or
> "notmuch insert" if the message was explicitly from: user.primary_email
> or user.other_email.

At the moment I'm more inclined to work on "doing things right" by
adding xapian documents (database items) for threads. Many of the ideas
in this thread amount to working around their absence. OTOH, it's
certainly true that this last idea (unlike some of the query ideas)
would be relatively straightforward to impliment.

d