Stephen J Eglen <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a few old mail files (from my time with other mailers), where the tags > are saved in the mail headers like "X-Labels: tag1". > > Does anyone here routinely deal (read/write) tags in mail headers? I'm aware > that the notmuch philosophy is treat the incoming mail as immutable. > However, from my point of view having tags in the mail headers would mean: > > (a) the state is in the file, not the notmuch db. > > (b) I could trim down some of the crazily longer headers that microsoft > outlook generates. > > Just asking on here in case anyone has done the above, not asking for any > change to notmuch (which is awesome, thank you).
I have not done the above; I vaguely remember someone doing that (perhaps with offline-imap) many years ago. Somewhat tangentially, the new git-remote-notmuch code makes sidecar files for tags, which would be another approach to consider. Basically the tags are in _notmuch_metadata/xx/yy/message-id/tags. I hope to extend that to other parts of notmuch; it seems like a reasonable format for dump / restore, for example. I don't know about the performance impact, but it might be reasonable to augment / replace maildir syncing with syncing-to-sidecars. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
