David Bremner <[email protected]> writes:

> Thomas Schneider <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> From notmuch-insert(1):
>>
>>> If the new message is a duplicate of an existing message in the
>>> database (it has same Message-ID), it will be added to the maildir
>>> folder and notmuch database, but the tags will not be changed.
>>
>> It might however be desired to apply the new tags even when the message
>> is a duplicate.  How complicated would it be to implement this?
>
> It doesn't look especially hard, assuming the obvious small change to
> add_file() in notmuch-insert.c works. I didn't look at the equivalent
> code path in notmuch-new.c. Presumably you'd want them both to behave
> the same way.

Just to be clear, I wasn't commenting on whether it was the right thing
to do or not, just whether it would be hard. It seems likely to be
annoying to at least some people to have messages show up as unread
again (or whatever the tags are) when new copies arrive.

d
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