Re: Forcing a sync of maildir flags?

Subject: Re: Forcing a sync of maildir flags?

Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 16:59:26 -0700

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Sean Whitton


Hello,

On Tue 03 May 2022 at 09:14AM -03, David Bremner wrote:

> I have the same intuition. Unfortunately it is not as simple as adding
> in a couple calls to this function. The complications I am aware of so
> far are
>
> 1) We need to distinguish between when a newly discovered file should
> update tags, and when the newly discovered file should have it's flags
> updated.
>
> 2) Renaming files in the middle of notmuch new needs to be done
> carefully in order that notmuch doesn't lose track of the files. They
> are only lost until the next run of notmuch-new, but it's not ideal.

Okay, thanks for the info.  Nice to have it all recorded in this thread.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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