unread flag and maildir syncing

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Wed Aug 16 18:04:19 PDT 2017


David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> 1/2 is just a fixup for a typo that I made (and Tomi missed ;))
> 2/2 is to help decide the desired behaviour without 'unread' in new.tags
>
> The current behaviour is that maildir flags win:
>
> | unread in new.tags | ,S on file name | unread tag in db |
> | Y                  | Y               | N                |
> | N                  | Y               | N                |
> | Y                  | N               | Y                |
> | N                  | N               | Y                |
>
> This means in particular that files in new/ have unread whether or not
> the user specifies that in new.tags.  That might be the right
> behaviour (it's certainly easier to impliment). I just want to confirm
> either way before I update notmuch-new (and potentially drop the
> "unread is not mandatory in new" test)

Series pushed to master. Fix is still in progress.

d


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