Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread David Bremner
dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu writes: > It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one > risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags > to override the xapian database. So that suggests something like: > >notmuch dump > backup >

Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread David Mazieres
David Bremner writes: > dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu writes: > >> It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one >> risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags >> to override the xapian database. So that suggests something like:

Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread David Bremner
dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags to override the xapian database. So that suggests something like: notmuch dump backup

Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread David Mazieres
David Bremner da...@tethera.net writes: dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags to override the xapian database. So that suggests something

Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread David Bremner
David Mazieres dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: So my question remains, what's the easiest safe way to re-enable synchronize_flags after disabling it? (Safe meaning it won't change any tags.) It could be that there's a very simple answer, in which case sticking it in the man

Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-08-16 Thread dm-list-email-notmuch
David Bremner da...@tethera.net writes: David Mazieres dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: So my question remains, what's the easiest safe way to re-enable [ 2 more citation lines. Click/Enter to show. ] synchronize_flags after disabling it? (Safe meaning it won't change any

Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-07-01 Thread dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu
Sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but I'm wondering: What is the best way to enable and disable maildir.synchronize_flags? It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags to override the

Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags

2015-07-01 Thread dm-list-email-notmuch
Sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but I'm wondering: What is the best way to enable and disable maildir.synchronize_flags? It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags to override the