On 2011-04-17, Pieter Praet wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:23:44 -0400, Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> wrote: > > > > Further, for certain mails I sent (like this one ) I would like a > > > > WAITING tag (or similar) in order to indicate that I am waiting for an > > > > answer. Currently I set this manually. Could this be achieved through > > > > some indicators via message mode or similar means? e.g.: > > > > > > > > <#notmuch tag=WAITING> analog to <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > > > > > > No idea how this works since I don't follow Jameson's crypto branch, > > > but it's probably not a good idea for this use case since (I presume) > > > the indicator will become permanently lodged in the content of the > > > mail, which isn't where highly volatile metadata belongs. > > > > I think the idea isn't to save it in the message, but to postprocess the > > message when sending, remove the marker and add the tag instead. > > > > Tom > > Seems like a Catch-22 to me. > > The marker needs to remain there long enough for Notmuch to index and > tag the message appropriately (which happens long after message-mode has > left the building) so it's up to Notmuch itself (as opposed to a > message-mode hook) to do the pre-/postprocessing. Not if message mode post-processing is hooked up to something like notmuch-deliver, that indexes and tags the message on send. Tom