On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:31:28 +0100, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do you have a particular use case where indexing is required but tagging
> is not? For my uses I would prefer failing if either indexing or tagging
> failed. (My use being postponing messages; If they don't get the
> postponed tag they could be hard to find)

You're right.

What about a failure to sync tags to maildir flags?

I now noticed that database modifications aren't flushed until the
notmuch_database_destroy call (right?), which has no return value and
failure of which is silently ignored.  That's acceptable in the default
mode, but with --must-index the failure should be reported (and the
file deleted).

Peter