notmuch-response is a notmuch post-new hook that will tag all unreplied messages in your mailboxes. The primary use is to get the list of unreplied e-mails sent to other people (so that you can ping them after some time).
Follow the following steps:
- Make sure the new messages are tagged with
new(see this page). - Copy
notmuch-responseandpost-newto your notmuch hooks directory - Customize
post-newas it is only a template - Run
notmuch-response reindexto perform initial indexing
After the initial run, the tags will be updated by the hook
every time you run notmuch new.
- Initial reindexing is memory-hungry and it could fail on some humongous mailbox (but I doubt anybody has such a mailbox)
- notmuch commands do not export the 'In-Reply-To' header so the implementation recreates it from thread structure; it's actually quite pretty, but it would be much simpler to just get the header
- if used with offlineimap,
notmuch-response indexmakes mutt folders read immediately; it is due to a subtle interplay between offlineimap and notmuch, see Debian Bug #789625 (contains a quick fix)
The way it works is rather simple: we look at each message in the
mailbox and check whether it responds to another message. Then we tag
all messages that are replied to (with response tag). All remaining
messages will be tagged with noresponse tag. Additional tagging can
be done, as it is shown in post-new. For example, I put tag noack
on messages that were sent by me, but I got no response to.