customize ignoring tags

[gauteh]

customize ignoring tags

[nv1t]

Adding: Ignoring arbitrary tags based on regexp, or search string.

[amitramon]

This seems like a good time to mention that I've started to work on a new feature for gmi, a custom translation of labels that can be configured by the user. It is in final stage and mostly need some more testing, so I hope to create a pull request for this feature in a few days.

I'm mentioning it here because it is related to the issue of the 'disallowed' labels discussed here. Also, I agree that @Eising 's use case is a good one, it would be useful to allow users to use tags locally without having to push them to their Gmail's accounts.

Since the implementation of this 'custom ignored labels' seems to me quiet similar to what I'm doing in the 'custom label translation' feature, I'll see if I can add it to what I'm doing or, perhaps, add it later in its own pull request.

[amitramon]

@gauteh - I have just created a pull request :-)

[julian-klode]

And snooze is actually a gmail tag too (well, you can query it in the web UI, it returns items snoozed in the Inbox client), that probably confuses the web UI :)

I'd like custom ignore, because I'd like to unignore SPAM and TRASH.

[nv1t]

Haven't seen snooze. Web-UI snoozed mails don't have any tags assoziated, or i'm missing stuff :-/

[julian-klode]

Yeah, you don't see it, but you can query is:snoozed (or label:snoozed) in gmail and it returns emails snoozed in Inbox - that's not documented anywhere, though.

[gauteh]

Julian Andres Klode writes on juni 13, 2017 21:25:

And snooze is actually a gmail tag too (well, you can query it in the web UI, it returns items snoozed in the Inbox client), that probably confuses the web UI :) I'd like custom ignore, because I'd like to unignore SPAM and TRASH.

These are not included by default by the Gmail API, I don't know if that can be switched on - or if we need to fetch them separately. Adding arbitrary non-gmail-special tags to be ignored, like 'new' and 'attachment' in ignore_labels should be trivial. This should probably be exposed using the `gmi set` interface, so that they are done on a per-account basis. It would make sense to have these in the global .notmuch-config, but I think it would get messy.

[gauteh]

nv1t writes on juni 13, 2017 20:56:

I'm using "snoozing" mails quite often. Atm i'm removing the inbox tag and adding two new tags: snooze, snoozeuntil-<date>. If <date> matches the current date the email will get readded to inbox :)

I'm using a similar approach using queue and queue.date---, how do you catch e-mails that you missed one day (say if you're computer is off for more than 48 hours)? Regexp tags?

[nv1t]

i'm sorting the queue.date and use the "unsnooze" method on each tag below a certain date. It is much faster, than regexp manipulation.
One method would be using simple unix time. I'm using a yyyymmdd type date, which makes it easier for input, coz i haven't worked on setting up custom commands/hooks. I don't need the extra time component and by date is enough.

i have a third tag which is snoozedBy. I can enter relative times and a timed python script translates these into absolute values :)

It seems the snoozed label is not included as well, which is a bummer.

[gauteh]

Ok, so to sum up:

• Ignoring arbitrary tags is easy.
• Un-ignoring spam and trash is not.

[Eising]

I would like to request this feature too.

Since I use multiple gmail accounts, it would be nice to be able to tag them so I can distinguish them locally, but I don't want that tag to be synced to gmail.

[gauteh]

Cool, looking forward to see how it works.

[gauteh]

Try #81 for a simple custom ignore

[gauteh]

Fixed in #81. No regexp support yet.