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-# 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 "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
@@ -16,3 +46,22 @@ notmuch and doing automated initial tagging.
   the inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. It is email
   id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org in the notmuch mailing list
   archives.
+
+* [This email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/003976.html)
+  details another user's setup, which uses a dedicated tag for marking new mail,
+  which is then sorted with a python script using Bogofilter for spam detection.
+  This is generally a great deal faster than a shell-scripted approach.
+  This approach introduces a workflow built around a "watch" tag. Here, the user
+  is only presented with threads as they are started. At this point the user can
+  choose to watch the thread, in which case future messages will be tagged with
+  "inbox", or ignore it. This provides an excellent means for dealing with a
+  large flux of messages with a low signal-to-noise.  It is email
+  id:"87tyfu3k5a.fsf@gmail.com" 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.