> Quoth Michal Nazarewicz on Aug 03 at 4:29 pm: >> I've just started using notmuch and am wondering if there is a way to >> make message ?inherit? some of the tags from messages they are written >> in replay to (or in general are part of the same thread). >> >> I'm mostly thinking about a ?mute? tag which I'd add to messages that >> are completely uninteresting to me. With the ?inheritance? mechanism, >> I'd be able to make notmuch automatically mute all the replays within >> the same thread.
Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> writes: > I have a hacky and now ancient patch series that you're welcome to try > porting to a recent notmuch on the inheritable-tags-hack branch at > http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git > One general problem with this approach is dealing with threads whose > messages arrive or are ingested out of order. I don't think this is > an insurmountable problem, but my patch certainly doesn't handle it > correctly. I'll keep that in mind, but lack of time, won't probably let me play with it... > There are also several other solutions to "mute" tags around. For > example, some people use a post-new hook to search for threads that > contain at least one mute tag and then feed these thread IDs back in > to notmuch tag to add the mute tag to everything in the thread. I > believe this is also the approach used by the afew tagging system for > "killed" threads. Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. Basically ?notmuch search --output=threads is:mute? and then join all the lines with ?or? to finally do ?notmuch tag +mute <threads>?. I was, however, hoping for something more dedicated. -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Micha? ?mina86? Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +----<email/xmpp: mpn at google.com>--------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20120805/dcb3192c/attachment-0001.pgp>
