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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:08:43 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:29:23 -0600, Austin Clements wrote: > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 18 at 12:14 am: > > On Lu, 16 ian 12, 21:34:31, Austin Clements wrote: > > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm: > > > > Where can I read more about this? (except the source :) > > > > > > Most of this is in the Xapian query syntax document you found. Really > > > we ought to beef-up Notmuch's query syntax documentation. > > > > If I get around to write something myself where do you suggest I should > > start, the wiki or the manpage? > > Probably expanding man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7 would be the way to > go. I would appreciate it if the limitations of id: search were explained there too. I have some rules that I would love to make based on pattern matching the message-id of the message, because I have a tool that generates scads of email and I want to be able to delete a lot of it. I think that id: is only matchable as an entire string, and a confirmation of that would be nice to see. For those who cringe when hearing the mention of _deletion_ of emails, do you have a suggestion for how many copies of bugs in the bug database I should store in my mail repository? Note that IT only gives me a couple gigabytes of home directory storage, and I don't have an SSD Linux laptop, so the index does eventually slow down. In other words, there are plenty of emails I love to forget ever having received. :) -Mark