On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > By giving "notmuch new" a path to a message in the store: > > notmuch new /path/to/message > > By feeding "notmuch new" a message on stdin, and then having it write > the message to a specified location: > > notmuch new /path/to/maildir <message > > You could then add the ability to add tags at the time of index: > > notmuch new +foo +bar /path/to/message I think passing specific messages or directories to notmuch new would enable some nice features; beyond immediate indexing any tagging of sent mail, it could be combined with inotify to immediately index any new mail (something I've been meaning to play with but haven't yet). However, concurrency and atomicity have to be considered carefully with any proposal like this. For example, notmuch new +foo +bar /path/to/message has concurrency hazards: the caller has to store the message before invoking notmuch new, but if the machine crashes between these two operations, the message will be indexed with default tags on the next notmuch new. Similarly, a chance unrelated invocation of notmuch new immediately after the message is stored would result in the new message being indexed with default tags.