Re: gmail label support patch available for oflineimap

Subject: Re: gmail label support patch available for oflineimap

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:45:25 -0400

To: Michal Nazarewicz, Tomi Ollila, Rainer M Krug

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 28 2012, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>> I could not find it in the docs (looked wiki mainly) but one of the 
>> principles notmuch currently operates that the *contents* of the email
>> files it reads are not ever modified. i.e. the email files are read-only
>> from notmuch (cli) point of view.
>
> This is only a problem if you want to modify the labels in the email and
> sync them back to Gmail though, right?

Right. But without that, the whole thing could be scripted pretty easily
I think, just parse the x-labels header and use notmuch-deliver or
something like that.

d

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