v1: This patch set allows a user to specify a list of tags to be added/removed to messages discovered during "notmuch new". Two use-cases are envisaged: 1) A chunk of messages was just dumped into the configured directory by hand, and the user doesn't want the 'inbox' tag applied to them. Run 'notmuch new -inbox'. 2) A periodic mail processing script wants to add new messages to the database, then process those newly added messages to add convenience tags, etc. without worrying about the user or other instances of the script manipulating tags at the same time. Use this approach: KEY=$RANDOM notmuch new +$KEY notmuch tag +notmuch tag:$KEY and to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org notmuch tag +gnus tag:$KEY and to:ding@gnus.org ... notmuch tag -$KEY tag:$KEY v2: The first version synced tags to flags rather than the other way around. Thanks to Mark for complaining at me.