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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:02:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: notmuch workflow example
From: "Robin Jarry" <robin@jarry.cc>
To: "Kalyan Sriram" <kalyan@coderkalyan.com>,
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Kalyan Sriram, Nov 13, 2021 at 19:02:
> I have multiple accounts that I manage, both via Gmail and self hosted
> (postfix/dovecot). For syncing the self hosted one, I use mbsync,
> followed by a notmuch tagging script. For GMail, I was using mbsync, but
> I've recently started using
> [lieer](https://github.com/gauteh/lieer), which I'm pleased with so far.
> It handles both syncing GMail to a local maildir and converting gmail
> labels <-> notmuch tags.

Oh this reminds me that I had tried out that project a few years ago.
I really liked the concept but not the way it was implemented. I gave
myself the challenge to create a similar tool but I never got to use it
extensively. If you have a chance, I would really like some feedback :)

https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/notmuch-gmail

I have just taken out the code from the grave and giving it a test run.
It looks like it still works :)

> > How do you set the copy-to=3D option?
> This is where it gets messy. Notmuch doesn't have a concept of copy-to.
> The funny thing is, I did some testing, and GMail seems to (lmk if your
> mileage varies) copy things to its own sent folder whether or not the
> mail client does that. This is working out for me, though, because lieer
> synchronizes that and tags all messages in that folder with `sent`,
> which I use as a query in my gmail query-map `sent=3Dtag:sent`. IIRC
> you're using GMail, so this should work for you.
>
> Regarding my self-hosted account, I'm still trying to figure out how to
> do this. Currently the best solution I can think of is setting up
> postfix to BCC on every email, and then using notmuch to tag those
> emails.

It looks like this should be handled by the email client itself.
copy-to=3D should do something special depending on the account type. For
imap/maildir, it only means saving the message in a folder. However for
notmuch, it would require some additional steps. Maybe a completely
different action.

What do you think?

> No problem! There's some other things I'm figuring out as I go, so I'll
> probably make a blog article at some point (hopefully soon) with all
> this information. I'll share that when I do :)

Thanks a lot for all this.

By the way, I don't know how aerc handles "delete" and "archive" with
a notmuch account. Does it involve adding/removing tags?

--=20
Robin