Hello, I'm trying to set up notmuch, and I think that the behavior I want should be possible (and is desirable), but I can't seem to make it work. I also can't find any reference online suggesting that it *shouldn't* work, and I would have thought that it's a very common use case for people using multiple mail clients with one IMAP server. Running Arch Linux, so on latest (currently 0.38.1). Working with the CLI and Emacs frontend. I'm synchronizing mail from a remote IMAP server to local maildir using isync/mbsync. What I want is for messages that do not have maildir files ending in ':2,S' to be tagged as 'unread' in notmuch. In other words, I want notmuch to respect the read/unread state of messages from the IMAP server and not make any other changes. My understanding is that this is the purpose of the maildir.synchronize_flags option. I have explicitly set this to true in my config: [maildir] synchronize_flags=true Moreover, I have also turned off all default tags when running notmuch new: [new] tags= What I see is: 1) When I pull in messages with `mbsync`, they end up in the `new/` directory as expected. 2) When I run `notmuch new`, the messages remain in the `new/` directory. I guess this is correct. I don't really mind where they are. 3) When I open the Emacs interface, I see that the message is not tagged as `unread`. Moreover, when I read the message, it is not moved from `new/` to `cur/`, and the filename does not change from ':2,' to ':2,S'. This is the first part of the problem. The second part is that when I try to implement tagging in a post-new hook, all messages are immediately marked as read, e.g. they are moved from `new/` to `cur/` and their filename ending changes from ':2,' to ':2,S'. This is the only tag operation I'm performing: +inbox -- folder:current/Inbox My understanding of what the behavior should be is that: 1) `notmuch new` should automatically tag messages in `new/` and `cur/` that do not have 'S' in their filename as 'unread'. 2) `notmuch tag` should not mark an unread message as read; maybe this is happening because `notmuch new` didn't add the `unread` tag beforehand? On the other hand, I have confirmed that if I go into the emacs interface and add the 'unread' tag to messages, their maildir files do get the 'S' removed from them. So the tag synchronization is working in the opposite direction. I feel like I must be missing something fundamental in my understanding, or there is a fundamental bug in maildir.synchronize_flags. I would appreciate any advice. Thank you, Andrew Todd at@auspicacious.org _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org