-# Initial Tagging
+# Approaches to initial tagging of messages
This page collects scripts and strategies for organizing mail using
notmuch and doing automated initial tagging.
+Here's a very general and ad-hoc approach to initial message tagging.
+The `[new]` config section allows you to control which tags new messages
+receive. This sets all new messages to get the *new* tag:
+
+ [new]
+ tags=new;
+
+After running `notmuch new`, all new messages will be marked *new*.
+You can then do various tag post-processing by just acting on messages
+with that tag. For instance, a post-processing script might do the
+following:
+
+ # immediately archive all messages from "me"
+ notmuch tag -new -- tag:new and from:me@example.com
+
+ # delete all messages from a spammer:
+ notmuch tag +deleted -- from:spam@spam.com
+
+ # tag all message from notmuch mailing list
+ notmuch tag +notmuch -- to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+
+ # finally, retag all "new" messages s "inbox" and "unread"
+ notmuch tag +inbox +unread -new -- tag:new
+
+Since the post-processing is only acting on a few messages, it is
+generally extrememly fast.
+
+
+# Other solutions
+
* [This
email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html)
(and related thread) details Carl Worth's approach to tagging. It is
the inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. It is email
id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org in the notmuch mailing list
archives.
+
+
+# Notmuch Delivery Agent -- `notmuch-deliver`
+
+The [Notmuch Delivery Agent](http://github.com/alip/notmuch-deliver/)
+([announcement](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/002871.html)) is
+a tool for delivering emails to maildir, add them to the Notmuch database, and
+tag them as desired.