On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:16:53 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > [*] This is a point I'm not clear on. Would a tool like offlineimap be > able to push custom filenames through to the remote end with standard > imap servers? Not sure. If it worked this would be really nice. But as most IMAP server support arbitrary flags to be added to a message, I would still think the best is to code a tool that talks IMAP and synchronizes notmuch tags with the IMAP server. I've never done it before and python's IMAP support is pretty crappy or I would alredy have given it a go :). > So questions of syntax aside, I'm not convinced that this idea is > insane. And if it covers all of the synchronization needs that people > really have. Yes, it would cover a lot of my needs too. Altough I am still aiming at propagating my notmuch flags via the IMAP server and back :). > That's actually a question I wanted to ask you. If notmuch 0.5 actually > does everything that notmuchsync did, then that's great news. If there > is any missing functionality, then let's get that into notmuch. Pruning used to be done nicely with notmuchsync, but you have given a nice example how that could be done with notmuch now. The one thing I can see now that notmuchsync still does is moving maessages to a folder when they match a tag. But that would be an equally short shell script that notmuch can do now. So, while I might still fix bugs, I do not think that notmuchsync will evolve a lot further (until I make it speak IMAP which I don't see coming in the near future) Sebastian