Re: Understanding the "replied" tag

Subject: Re: Understanding the "replied" tag

Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:12:43 -0700

To: Xu Wang, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Austin Clements

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Subject: Re: Understanding the "replied" tag
From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:12:43 -0700
To: Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Hi Xu. I may be misunderstanding your email, but it sounds like you want to know if a message has *any* reply message. That's not what the replied tag indicates. The replied tag indicates that *you* have sent a reply to a message. Mechanically, when you hit, say, r to start a reply and then send that message, notmuch tags the message you hit r on as "replied". That's the only time notmuch automatically sets this tag.

On June 11, 2015 10:25:44 AM PDT, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>First, I am extremely excited to be a part of this list now. notmuch
>has really helped me. Thank you go all individuals working to improve
>it and to help others to know how to use it.
>
>I would really like to know if a message has been replied to (e.g.
>using a certain message id). It seems that all I need to do is check
>for the "replied" tag. But often this tag is not there, even when
>there has been a reply (I have confirmed this through the thread
>display and checking the message that replied to the message to make
>sure it indeed has header "replied-to:<MSG-ID>").
>
>I have looked in mutt, and also I see many situations where there is
>no 'r' flag, especially for emails sent from me.
>
>The following returns true:
>notmuch config get maildir.synchronize_flags
>
>So at least both are giving same answer, but I'm not sure why not
>saying "replied" thread is correct.
>
>What is incorrect for my way of thinking about "replied"? Do I
>misunderstand what it is supposed to do or am I not updating the flags
>correctly?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Xu
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