On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:13:47AM +0000, moonmaill...@firemail.cc wrote: > I really want to know best practices or nice virtual-mailboxes, which aren't > included in normal tutorials. Most tutorial just have 1 email address and > only use tags like inbox, archive, deleted and spam. But there must be much > better use cases and much more detailed notmuch queries or even hooks which > are triggered to specific events.
I mean in the end you need to make up a system that works for you. I personally just tag it by topic (notmuch / neomutt / distro related...) possibilities are endless. But the more tags you have the harder it gets to keep track and make sense of them. I dump all mails from 3 addresses into one notmuch db. The necessary tricks to cope with that is in neomutt ``` set sendmail="/bin/msmtp --read-envelope-from" set use_from=yes set reverse_name set envelope_from=no # special case for lists, where we aren't explicitly on the to/cc headers reply-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:' reply-hook '~h"Delivered-To: asdf@gmail\.com"' my_hdr from: a...@gmail.com reply-hook '~h"Delivered-To: xyz@stuff\.com"' my_hdr from: x...@stuff.com ``` While that may not be the most elegant solution, at least it works. On the notmuch side I just use a after sync script containing all the tagging ``` #first put all in the inbox notmuch tag +inbox -- tag:new #temporary tag which will be removed at the end for email in ${own_adresses[@]}; do notmuch tag +to_me -- "to:${email} and tag:new" done for email in ${own_adresses[@]}; do notmuch tag +sent -- "from:${email} and tag:new" done # then remove all the non inbox stuff one by one # filter stuff we sent from the inbox if it isn't a self message notmuch tag -inbox -- tag:sent and not tag:to_me notmuch tag -inbox +lists +notmuch -- to:notmuch and tag:new # kill muted threads notmuch search --output=threads tag:muted | xargs -r -n1 notmuch tag +muted #get rid of old clutter from mailing lists notmuch tag +archive -- tag:lists and date:..30d and not tag:unread #archived stuff should not be unread notmuch tag -unread -- tag:unread and tag:archive #finally remove the temporary tags notmuch tag -new -to_me -- tag:new ``` Stuff like that... Does this help? Greetings, Reto _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch