On Fri, 09 Apr 2010, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 00:03, Jameson Rollins > <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > > Presumably others must be annoyed about having to manually "read" and > > archive all their sent mail, unless there's some other way that people > > having been dealing with this that I'm not aware of. > > I haven't switched over to notmuch properly yet, but in my initial > import of my mail I made a couple of patches to notmuch new that let > me get the tags right first. One was to make: > > notmuch new --initial-tags=list,unread > > set the initial tags for newly found messages to "list" and "unread" > instead of the default "inbox" and "unread". > > The other was to make: > > find Mail/.Saved/ -type f | notmuch new --initial-tags=archived --file-list > > only process the mail files listed on stdin (via find), and give them > the explicit tags I specify. That way I could import all my existing > archived mail without it appearing in my inbox or as unread. Hmm, quite interesting feature. I think that several people asked for this in the past. I'd be happy to see the patches. -Michal