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:
+receive. By default, `notmuch config` will use the tags *inbox* and *unread*.
+
+If `maildir.synchronize_flags` is true (which is the default), Maildir flags
+have precedence over the initial tags. Thus an already read mail gets its
+initial *unread* tag correctly removed.
+
+## The *new* tag approach
+
+Here's another very general and ad-hoc approach to initial message tagging,
+which sets all new messages to get the *new* tag:
[new]
tags=new;
# finally, retag all "new" messages "inbox" and "unread"
notmuch tag +inbox +unread -new -- tag:new
+Note that the command above will mark a new but already-read mail as unread.
+
Since the post-processing is only acting on a few messages, it is
generally extremely fast.
to do post-processing. See `man notmuch-hooks` for details on hooks.
-# Other solutions
+## Other solutions
* [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
of sent mails) and has some fancy features (e.g. mail classification
using bayesian filters).
-# Notmuch Delivery Agent -- `notmuch-deliver`
+## Notmuch MDA -- `notmuch-insert`
-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.
+The [[notmuch insert command|manpages/notmuch-insert-1]] is a tool for
+delivering emails to maildir, indexing them to the Notmuch database, and tagging
+them as desired.