That sounds very interesting David. Where can I learn more about the
git-remote-notmuch code?
Best wishes,
Stephen
On Mon, Jun 01 2026, David Bremner wrote:
> 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.
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