1/2 is just a fixup for a typo that I made (and Tomi missed ;)) 2/2 is to help decide the desired behaviour without 'unread' in new.tags The current behaviour is that maildir flags win: | unread in new.tags | ,S on file name | unread tag in db | | Y | Y | N | | N | Y | N | | Y | N | Y | | N | N | Y | This means in particular that files in new/ have unread whether or not the user specifies that in new.tags. That might be the right behaviour (it's certainly easier to impliment). I just want to confirm either way before I update notmuch-new (and potentially drop the "unread is not mandatory in new" test) d