Am Di., 12. Dez. 2023 um 10:58 Uhr schrieb Andrew Todd <[email protected] >:
> Hello, > > I'm trying to set up notmuch, and I think that the behavior I want > should be possible (and is desirable), but I can't seem to make it work. > I also can't find any reference online suggesting that it *shouldn't* > work, and I would have thought that it's a very common use case for > people using multiple mail clients with one IMAP server. > > Running Arch Linux, so on latest (currently 0.38.1). Working with the > CLI and Emacs frontend. > > I'm synchronizing mail from a remote IMAP server to local maildir using > isync/mbsync. > > What I want is for messages that do not have maildir files ending in > ':2,S' to be tagged as 'unread' in notmuch. > > In other words, I want notmuch to respect the read/unread state of > messages from the IMAP server and not make any other changes. > > My understanding is that this is the purpose of the > maildir.synchronize_flags option. I have explicitly set this to true in > my config: > > [maildir] > synchronize_flags=true > > Moreover, I have also turned off all default tags when running notmuch new: > > [new] > tags= > > The default is `unread;inbox`. I understand you don't want the inbox tag, but have you tried with `unread` here? The manual is not overly clear about the interaction between this config and flag sync, but AFAIU, `notmuch new` sets `unread` and then possibly unsets it during the flag sync (maybe in one atomic db write, i.e. you don't see this). By removing `unread` from `new.tags` you keep `notmuch new` from doing that first step. And just in case this feels like a "duh moment" to you - we all have them ;) Cheers, Michael
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