Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch: Respect maildir message flags

Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch: Respect maildir message flags

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:35:27 +0100

To: Stewart Smith, Tim Stoakes, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Michal Sojka


On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:21:28 +1100, Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com> wrote:
> What about this patch (just with those few things fixed)?
> 
> diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
> index f25c71f..8303047 100644
> --- a/notmuch-new.c
> +++ b/notmuch-new.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ typedef struct {
>      int total_files;
>      int processed_files;
>      int added_messages;
> +    int tag_maildir;

I think notmuch_bool_t will be better than int here.

BTW what is the reason for using notmuch_bool_t instead of bool from
stdbool.h?

> @@ -222,6 +277,7 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>      notmuch_filenames_t *db_subdirs = NULL;
>      struct stat st;
>      notmuch_bool_t is_maildir, new_directory;
> +    int maildir_detected = -1;

Again, notmuch_bool_t is IMHO better. You seem only to use values -1 and
1 which is quite confusing.

>  
>      if (stat (path, &st)) {
>  	fprintf (stderr, "Error reading directory %s: %s\n",
> @@ -301,6 +357,28 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>  	    continue;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* If this directory is a Maildir folder, we need to
> +	 * ignore any subdirectories marked tmp/, and scan for
> +	 * Maildir attributes on messages contained in the sub-
> +	 * directories 'new' and 'cur'. */
> +	if (maildir_detected != 0 &&
> +	    (entry->d_type == DT_DIR || entry->d_type == DT_UNKNOWN) &&
> +	    ((strcmp (entry->d_name, "tmp") == 0) ||
> +	     (strcmp (entry->d_name, "new") == 0) ||
> +	     (strcmp (entry->d_name, "cur") == 0))) {
> +
> +    if (maildir_detected == -1) {
> +      maildir_detected = _entries_resemble_maildir(fs_entries, num_fs_entries);
> +    }
> +    if (maildir_detected == 1) {
> +      if (strcmp (entry->d_name, "tmp") == 0) {
> +        continue;
> +      } else {
> +        state->tag_maildir = TRUE;

You might also want to set this to FALSE somewhere. It is very unlikely,
but somebody can create non-maildir under maildir.

> @@ -412,7 +490,12 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>  	/* success */
>  	case NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS:
>  	    state->added_messages++;
> -	    tag_inbox_and_unread (message);
> +			if (state->tag_maildir) {
> +			    derive_tags_from_maildir_flags (message,
> +							    entry->d_name);
> +			} else {
> +			    tag_inbox_and_unread (message);
> +			}
>  	    break;
>  	/* Non-fatal issues (go on to next file) */
>  	case NOTMUCH_STATUS_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID:

You add the tags only to newly discovered mails. If a file is renamed
(e.g. because another mail reader removed the S flag), the tags will not
be updated. It is a question, what is the proper behavior. I personally
use something like what is in your patch and then use notmuchsync to
handle renamed files. It has only one problem - notmuchsync is quite
slow, so if this is solved in notmuch, I'd be happy.

Cheers,
 Michal

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