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| author | Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl> | 2026-02-09 20:04:42 +0100 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2026-02-16 07:20:22 +0900 |
| commit | b8fa14f8a8f3e30c95f1dad54daa79a6a962fa73 (patch) | |
| tree | befcd460c1eb51118dc09b5c17c32dc8172bb7b0 | |
| parent | 2ddff9923e09e379bce30cdb0f620b56fa7cea5e (diff) | |
Document that indexing does not sync flags
This quirk is somewhat unexpected, since flags won't be updated as
expected, but subsequence calls to notmuch-new(1) won't update the
index, giving an impression of it being stale.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/notmuch.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h index ee11400a..dc40c886 100644 --- a/lib/notmuch.h +++ b/lib/notmuch.h @@ -807,6 +807,12 @@ notmuch_database_get_directory (notmuch_database_t *database, * notmuch_message_destroy when done with the message. On any failure * '*message' will be set to NULL. * + * Note that this does not synchronise Maildir flags to notmuch flags, + * regardless of the value of maildir.synchronize_flags. Future calls to + * notmuch-new(1) will also not synchronise flags, since the file's current + * mtime shall be recorded as indexed. If flags ought to be synchronised, + * explicitly call notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags. + * * Return value: * * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Message successfully added to database. |