Re: unread flag and maildir syncing

Subject: Re: unread flag and maildir syncing

Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:04:19 -0300

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, notmuch@freelists.org

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From: David Bremner


David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> 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)

Series pushed to master. Fix is still in progress.

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