X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=obsolete%2Fnotmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=initial_tagging.mdwn;h=81bfd06e8ad98782205676d472890bc40d539afa;hp=40e9acfd5cdc2c10f67a84833024ac6ef22388c2;hb=280418df96c602eaafdd462eeb90d116f52699fe;hpb=cb537693246b99ef999d3ae7c52051663b03d41f diff --git a/initial_tagging.mdwn b/initial_tagging.mdwn index 40e9acf..81bfd06 100644 --- a/initial_tagging.mdwn +++ b/initial_tagging.mdwn @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ 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: +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". +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: @@ -19,29 +19,53 @@ following: notmuch tag -new -- tag:new and from:me@example.com # delete all messages from a spammer: - notmuch tag +deleted -- from:spam@spam.com + notmuch tag +deleted -- tag:new and from:spam@spam.com # tag all message from notmuch mailing list - notmuch tag +notmuch -- to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org + notmuch tag +notmuch -- tag:new and to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org - # finally, retag all "new" messages s "inbox" and "unread" + # 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. +generally extremely fast. -## Other solutions +You can use the `post-new` hook, which is automatically run after `notmuch new`, +to do post-processing. See `man notmuch-hooks` for details on hooks. -* [This - email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html) - (and related thread) details Carl Worth's approach to tagging. It is - email id:87r5o8stbj.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org in the notmuch mailing - list archives. +# Other solutions -* [This - email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001690.html) - (and related thread) details one user's setup, which includes using - the inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. It is email - id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org in the notmuch mailing list - archives. +* [Carl Worth's approach to tagging](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html). It + is email id:87r5o8stbj.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org in the notmuch + mailing list archives. + + +* [One user's setup](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001690.html) + (id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org), which includes using the + inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. + +* [Another user's setup](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/003976.html) + (id:"87tyfu3k5a.fsf@gmail.com"), 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. + +* [afew](https://github.com/teythoon/afew) is an initial tagging + solution that should work out of the box for most basic tagging + needs (mailinglist handling, killed thread handling, autoarchiving + of sent mails) and has some fancy features (e.g. mail classification + using bayesian filters). + +# 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.