On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:26:46 -0800, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > Hey, folks. I just pushed a couple of patches to my "crypto" branch [0] > that add support for auto-tagging of multipart/signed and > multipart/encrypted messages with the "signed" and "encrypted" tags > respectively. Only new messages are thus tagged, so a database rebuild > is required to auto-tag old messages. So I realized last night, what now seems obvious, that restoring tags after a notmuch new will override any initial auto tagging. This means that doing a database rebuild will *not* crypto tag all your old mail if you then restore tags from a tag dump afterwords. I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done about this. I think we either have to have a way to merge tags, or the signed and encrypted indicators need to exist in a different field in the database. Tags allow more flexibility in the UIs, but maybe we could just tag based on a the new database field somehow? It's not such a big deal that we only get "signed" and "encrypted" from here forward, but it would be nice to re-tag old messages this way. I can imagine that something like this will come up again in the future, and it would be nice if we had a solution. I'm open to suggestions. jamie.