of messages, and a subsequent iteration attempt will raise a
:exc:`NotmuchError` STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED. If you need to
re-iterate over a list of messages you will need to retrieve a new
- :class:`Messages` object or cache your :class:`Message`s in a list
+ :class:`Messages` object or cache your :class:`Message`\s in a list
via::
msglist = list(msgs)
class Message(object):
"""Represents a single Email message
- Technically, this wraps the underlying *notmuch_message_t* structure.
+ Technically, this wraps the underlying *notmuch_message_t*
+ structure. A user will usually not create these objects themselves
+ but get them as search results.
- As this implements __cmp__() it is possible to compare 2
- :class:`Message`s with::
-
- if msg1 == msg2:
+ As it implements :meth:`__cmp__`, it is possible to compare two
+ :class:`Message`\s using `if msg1 == msg2: ...`.
"""
"""notmuch_message_get_filename (notmuch_message_t *message)"""
:param msg_p: A pointer to an internal notmuch_message_t
Structure. If it is `None`, we will raise an :exc:`NotmuchError`
STATUS.NULL_POINTER.
+
:param parent: A 'parent' object is passed which this message is
derived from. We save a reference to it, so we can
automatically delete the parent object once all derived
The returned string belongs to 'message' will only be valid for as
long as the message is valid.
- This function will not return None since Notmuch ensures that every
+ This function will not return `None` since Notmuch ensures that every
message belongs to a single thread.
:returns: String with a thread ID
raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NULL_POINTER)
return Tags(tags_p, self)
- def add_tag(self, tag, sync_maildir_flags=True):
+ def add_tag(self, tag, sync_maildir_flags=False):
"""Adds a tag to the given message
Adds a tag to the current message. The maximal tag length is defined in
:param sync_maildir_flags: If notmuch configuration is set to do
this, add maildir flags corresponding to notmuch tags. See
- :meth:`tags_to_maildir_flags`. Use False if you want to
- add/remove many tags on a message without having to
- physically rename the file every time. Do note, that this
- will do nothing when a message is frozen, as tag changes
- will not be committed to the database yet.
+ underlying method :meth:`tags_to_maildir_flags`. Use False
+ if you want to add/remove many tags on a message without
+ having to physically rename the file every time. Do note,
+ that this will do nothing when a message is frozen, as tag
+ changes will not be committed to the database yet.
:returns: STATUS.SUCCESS if the tag was successfully added.
Raises an exception otherwise.
self.tags_to_maildir_flags()
return STATUS.SUCCESS
- def remove_tag(self, tag, sync_maildir_flags=True):
+ def remove_tag(self, tag, sync_maildir_flags=False):
"""Removes a tag from the given message
If the message has no such tag, this is a non-operation and
:param tag: String with a 'tag' to be removed.
:param sync_maildir_flags: If notmuch configuration is set to do
this, add maildir flags corresponding to notmuch tags. See
- :meth:`tags_to_maildir_flags`. Use False if you want to
- add/remove many tags on a message without having to
- physically rename the file every time. Do note, that this
- will do nothing when a message is frozen, as tag changes
- will not be committed to the database yet.
+ underlying method :meth:`tags_to_maildir_flags`. Use False
+ if you want to add/remove many tags on a message without
+ having to physically rename the file every time. Do note,
+ that this will do nothing when a message is frozen, as tag
+ changes will not be committed to the database yet.
:returns: STATUS.SUCCESS if the tag was successfully removed or if
the message had no such tag.
- def remove_all_tags(self, sync_maildir_flags=True):
+ def remove_all_tags(self, sync_maildir_flags=False):
"""Removes all tags from the given message.
See :meth:`freeze` for an example showing how to safely
replace tag values.
+
:param sync_maildir_flags: If notmuch configuration is set to do
this, add maildir flags corresponding to notmuch tags. See
:meth:`tags_to_maildir_flags`. Use False if you want to
Also, if this filename is in a directory named "new", rename it
to be within the neighboring directory named "cur".
- Usually, you do not need to call this manually as
- tag changing methods should be implicitly calling it.
+ Do note that calling this method while a message is frozen might
+ not work yet, as the modified tags have not been committed yet
+ to the database.
:returns: a :class:`STATUS`. In short, you want to see
notmuch.STATUS.SUCCESS here. See there for details."""
is, the flags from the multiple filenames are combined with the
logical OR operator.)
- Usually, you do not need to call this manually as
- :meth:`Database.add_message` implicitly calls it.
+ As a convenience, you can set the sync_maildir_flags parameter in
+ :meth:`Database.add_message` to implicitly call this.
:returns: a :class:`STATUS`. In short, you want to see
notmuch.STATUS.SUCCESS here. See there for details."""
msg['from'] = self.get_header('from')
msg['tags'] = str(self.get_tags())
msg['date'] = date.fromtimestamp(self.get_date())
- replies = self.get_replies()
- msg['replies'] = len(replies) if replies is not None else 0
- return "%(from)s (%(date)s) (%(tags)s) %(replies)d replies" % (msg)
+ return "%(from)s (%(date)s) (%(tags)s)" % (msg)
def get_message_parts(self):