On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:50:25 +0100, Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> wrote:
> My drafts (created using emacs message mode) are being tagged as
> inbox. However, they are not tagged as drafts. This is because emacs
> message mode does not store drafts in Maildir format, so there are no
> Maildir flags (e.g. D for draft) to sync tags with.
> 
> Now, I could simply store drafts somewhere else, but then I wouldn't be
> able to search them using notmuch. Is there another way to have drafts
> correctly tagged?

Notmuch isn't much involved in the current saving of drafts, so if we
wanted to do something like save drafts to a maildir instead, we could
override the buffer-saving functions in our message-composition buffers.

Meanwhile, even without a tag, I do like that my drafts are currently
getting indexed by notmuch and show up in search results, (they even
show up with a timestamp of 0 so accidentally get sorted right to the
top of many search results). That's convenient.

Even handier would be a separate notmuch-hello search result showing me
I have some drafts to complete, (which would then, benefit from a tag).

The biggest annoyance I currently have with drafts is that they aren't
automatically removed from the filesystem when I finally send the
message. If someone were to contribute a fix for that, it would really
make my day.

-Carl

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