Re: script to move messages according to tags
Yes, Notmuch considers any email files with the same message-id header as being the same message so won't show you multiple versions of the same email, (unless you're specifically asking for it to with something like --output=files). In normal usage I never worry about the duplicates I get from mailing lists, etc. I hope you'll find notmuch very useful. Have fun! -Carl On Wed, Dec 11 2019, Alan Schmitt wrote: > On 2019-12-11 16:33, David Edmondson writes: > >> How you decide to deal with multiple results is really up to you >> - in my >> case I move/delete all of them (except that I don't actually >> delete >> anything). > > This is probably the key: I'm used to file-based MUA that will > show me > duplicates. If notmuch hides them from me, I could just ignore > that they > exist (it's not like it's taking too much space anyway…) > > Best, > > Alan > ___ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Re: script to move messages according to tags
On 2019-12-11 16:33, David Edmondson writes: How you decide to deal with multiple results is really up to you - in my case I move/delete all of them (except that I don't actually delete anything). This is probably the key: I'm used to file-based MUA that will show me duplicates. If notmuch hides them from me, I could just ignore that they exist (it's not like it's taking too much space anyway…) Best, Alan signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Re: script to move messages according to tags
On Wednesday, 2019-12-11 at 16:28:20 +01, Alan Schmitt wrote: > I do have one small question: how do you deal with mails that have > duplicates? For instance, when I send a mail to a mailing list, I end > up with both the sent email and the one I later receive from the > list. If I tag the send one with deleted (no need to keep it), won't I > run the risk to delete both mails? If you have the id of a message you can get a list of all of the corresponding files with: notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files $id How you decide to deal with multiple results is really up to you - in my case I move/delete all of them (except that I don't actually delete anything). dme. -- Our President's crazy, did you hear what he said? ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Re: script to move messages according to tags
Hello Örjan, On 2019-12-11 13:58, Örjan Ekeberg writes: Below is the script that I use which does more-or-less what you are asking for. Thank you very much, this is most helpful. I do have one small question: how do you deal with mails that have duplicates? For instance, when I send a mail to a mailing list, I end up with both the sent email and the one I later receive from the list. If I tag the send one with deleted (no need to keep it), won't I run the risk to delete both mails? (Maybe I'm dealing with sent mails in a wrong way… I don't know what notmuch best practice is in that case.) Thanks, Alan signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Re: script to move messages according to tags
Alan Schmitt writes:
> Has someone written such a script that I could copy and
> adapt?
>
> My use cases are:
> - find files with a deleted flag not in the Trash and move them to
> the
> Trash
> - find files with an archive flag in my active mail store and move
> them
> to my local mail store
Hi Alan,
Below is the script that I use which does more-or-less what you are
asking for.
The only "magic" here is the function safeMove which strips the
identifier number and flags from the filename when a file is moved.
These identifier numbers are added by mbsync which is the program I use
to synchronise my folders with our webmail server, and keeping the
numbers when moving the files proved to interfere with its
synchronisation logic.
Cheers,
Örjan
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#!/bin/bash
MAILDIR=$HOME/MyMail
# Move a message file while removing its UID-part
function safeMove { s=${1##*/}; s=${s%%,*}; mv -f $1 $2/$s; }
# Move all deleted messages to the Trash folder
echo Moving $(notmuch count --output=files --exclude=false tag:deleted AND NOT
folder:Trash) \
deleted messages to the Trash folder
for i in $(notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files tag:deleted AND NOT
folder:Trash); do
safeMove $i ${MAILDIR}/Trash/cur
done
# Move all spam messages to the Spam folder
echo Moving $(notmuch count --output=files tag:spam AND NOT folder:Spam) \
spam-marked messages to the Spam folder
for i in $(notmuch search --output=files tag:spam AND NOT folder:Spam); do
safeMove $i ${MAILDIR}/Spam/cur
done
# Move all archived messages from Inbox to Archive folder
echo Moving $(notmuch count --output=files folder:Inbox AND NOT tag:inbox) \
archived messages from Inbox to Archive folder
for i in $(notmuch search --output=files folder:Inbox AND NOT tag:inbox); do
safeMove $i ${MAILDIR}/Arkiv/cur
done
echo Syncing with Webmail
mbsync twoway
echo Updating notmuch database
notmuch new --no-hooks
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