Re: notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

>> notmuch insert --folder= or --folder="" does not work:
>>
>> String argument for option "folder" must be non-empty.
>> Unrecognized option: --folder=
>>
> This should be fixed in 733ccfabc, as part of 0.26

I have verified this, and it works.
___
notmuch mailing list
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Re: notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

Jani Nikula  writes:

> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, David Bremner  wrote:
>> Do you happen to know if it calls with an empty string as the folder
>> name? It would be consistent with searching for that to insert at the
>> top level.
>
> notmuch insert --folder= or --folder="" does not work:
>
> String argument for option "folder" must be non-empty.
> Unrecognized option: --folder=
>
> It seems that our argument parser doesn't accept empty strings at all,
> which is a bit of a limitation. It would be logical for the empty string
> to work here, and AFAICT the notmuch insert code would handle this if
> the argument was let through the parsing.

I agree. Fixing this in the `notmuch insert' argument parser is a better
solution.
___
notmuch mailing list
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Re: notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

Mark Walters  writes:

> Incidentally, I think "/" is an alternative for the fcc line which
> already works, which is "\"/\" in notmuch-fcc-dirs.

Perhaps, notmuch should be made to tolerate a "/" at the beginning of the
Fcc folder argument. That is, notmuch should not complain about absolute
paths, and it should interpret these as relative to the root. To
maintain backward compatibility, we could add a "/" at the beginning if
it is not already there.

So,

"/" => database.path
"/sent" => database.path/sent
"sent" => database.path/sent

etc.

Is this a better idea?
___
notmuch mailing list
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Re: notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

Mark Walters  writes:

> Alternatively, does just using / as the folder work?

notmuch complains about absolute paths if / is used as the folder. Look
at function `notmuch-maildir-add-notmuch-insert-style-fcc-header' in
notmuch-maildir-fcc.el.

David Bremner  writes:

> Do you happen to know if it calls with an empty string as the folder
> name? It would be consistent with searching for that to insert at the
> top level.

Setting notmuch-fcc-dirs to "\"\"" fails, if that's what you are asking.

I also tried "." as the folder. This works, but if I search using
`notmuch search --output=files ...', the filename is of the form
"database.path/./cur/some.mail.file". This is not so clean.

> In any case I've noted your feature request/bug-report. It doesn't sound
> terribly difficult to change, but it will need someone motivated to
> think about all of the related details like updating the test suite and
> changing docstrings.

I can contribute this patch. Shall I make it such that if the folder
part of `notmuch-fcc-dirs' is an empty string, then `notmuch insert' is
called without a `--folder=' argument?
___
notmuch mailing list
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

I am using notmuch-emacs, and I would like to Fcc my sent mail to the
top-level directory given by database.path, instead of using a folder
like "sent" relative to the top-level directory.

The function `notmuch-maildir-notmuch-insert-current-buffer' in
notmuch-maildir-fcc.el calls `notmuch insert' with the `--folder='
argument. I would like it to not do this.

For my immediate purposes, I have overridden
`notmuch-maildir-notmuch-insert-current-buffer' with the following
advice. But, it would be nice if this feature existed out of the box.

(define-advice notmuch-maildir-notmuch-insert-current-buffer
  (:override (folder  create tags)
 insert-into-root)
(apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process
   :stdin-string (buffer-string)
   "insert" tags))
___
notmuch mailing list
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch