On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:49:00 +0100, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de> wrote: > While notmuchsync fullfils my needs, it is a kludge. It needs to call > "notmuch" for each mail where a MailDir flag has changed (which can be > quite often on an initial run, where most mails are likely to be read), > this can take a long, long time. It would makes sense IMHO to at least > pick pioto's "don't set unread if 'S' flag is set" on notmuch new[1].
Once python bindings exist for the notmuch shared library, I am sure we can speed notmuchsync up a lot by keeping the connection open and tagging all mails in one go rather than executing a separate binary for each mail. So, this approach might still be feasible. Sebastian