Quoth Robert Horn on May 14 at 7:34 pm: > Is it practical (and has anyone documented) using a procmail setup to > set initial tags for messages using notmuch? > > I've just started using emacs-notmuch to read mail, and I'm using a > system where I have procmail filters to bin mail by category into > folders. I can continue this using folder:value for searching, but one > reason notmuch interests me is the potential to do more. > > It's practical for me to assign potentially overlapping tags with a more > sophisticated procmail setup. Notmuch tags enable having multiple tags > on one email. > > I don't know enough about the procmail/notmuch process to see just how > to make this happen. I'm hoping that someone has already done something > similar.
I second Jani's suggestion of using notmuch tag commands from notmuch's post-new hook if possible (or switching to using searches instead of tags where that makes sense). However, if you really need the flexibility of procmail, I can think of two solutions: You can let procmail deliver to folders, like usual, and then use notmuch tag tag:inbox folder:X +/-tags in notmuch's post-new hook to apply tags based on folders (you might want to add the tag 'new' to your new.tags in ~/.notmuch-config and filter on tag:new instead of tag:inbox). If you need multiple tags on a message, let procmail deliver it to multiple folders. Alternatively, you can have procmail record the message ID and desired tags of the message in a file and then apply those recorded tags in your post-new hook. This would achieve the tagging you want more directly, without mixing in folders and multiple delivery. The difficulty would be getting a message ID you could later use in an id: query. Simply grabbing the value of the message-id header would work most of the time, but there's a fair bit of logic for dealing with strangely formed or completely malformed message-id headers (see _parse_message_id). As far as I know, nobody has tried my second suggestion. Most people just switch to using notmuch queries (either to tag or simply to search). _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch