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afewmail
afew
Python2012–2018
afewmail / afew

afew

an initial tagging script for notmuch mail

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What it is

an initial tagging script for notmuch mail

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:03:38 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-07-07 00:09:50 UTC to 2018-10-05 23:01:09 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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nextos·Oct 2, 2017
I share your frustrations with Notmuch as an Emacs client. But I still find it better than Gnus and Mu4e. And I have tested all 3 extensively aside from using Mutt for a decade. I think making the Notmuch interface "pure" is a great design decision. By pure I mean that it just operates on tags, but never deletes or moves files and it doesn't even know about folders. This gives it great flexibility. You can implement virtually any logic in a Maildir backend by remapping tags to actual files. Any arbitrarily complicated workflow, silencing, automated scoring like what Gnus offers, etc. is possible while the UI will be the same. Just tagging. The problem is that Notmuch developers do not bundle any tools for implementing such a backend with notmuch, and third party stuff like afew [1] is lacking. It reminds me a bit about the situation with
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address completion. For a long time, mu offered this, while notmuch relied on hacky third party scripts. [1] https://github.com/afewmail/afew
In Nevermore: an experimental Emacs interface for Notmuch

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