Austin Clements writes: > Quoth Sam Halliday on Apr 27 at 12:09 pm: >> But in any case, my RFE/question was this: how hard would it be to have >> an optional mode of behaviour where tags are stored in the message >> itself, so that syncing with an IMAP server (e.g. via offlineimap) >> would make the tags available on all devices. > > FWIW, we've discussed being able to configure a bi-directional mapping > between folders and notmuch tags, using hard links (or simply message > copies) to map messages with multiple tags to multiple file system > folders. There's been some prototyping [1], though no serious code. > If this did happen, you'd be able to sync Gmail labels with notmuch > tags without any help from OfflineIMAP (OfflineIMAP could perform > better and use less disk space if it knew how to set up hard links > when talking to Gmail, but this would be entirely independent of > notmuch). You might also be able to work out cross-device sync, using > IMAP folder synchronization as a channel for tag synchronization.
I am extremely interested in the progress of this. Please keep me updated if anything moves in this area. Hard links are a secondary concern (that could be independently scripted if memory is an issue, and is only worth the effort if the label and tag syncing works).