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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Using Xapian synonyms with notmuch
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 07:19:22 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blzk5jo5.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhTkNh9FQ+qgcxLtOQqYeYsFGwVptwztv6Rt7sQSYWP_N69VQ@mail.gmail.com>

Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> writes:

> I have some contacts who go by several names (mostly people who use
> their native name in addition to sometimes using a name easier to
> pronounce for others; but also some secret agents). I often want to do
> something like "from:James" and where notmuch gives me back results
> with emails from "James", "Jimmy" and from "Jaime".
>

I think the only solution that is possible with current notmuch is to
use a stored query

$ notmuch config set query.james "from:James or from:Jimmy or from Jaime"
$ notmuch search query:james and date:today

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-30  6:10 Using Xapian synonyms with notmuch Xu Wang
2019-05-30 10:19 ` David Bremner [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAJhTkNjKRP-3pCxM2LumRrtmKXE6aRWAtR_9DqP-+pxLyVp_+g@mail.gmail.com>
2019-05-31 10:46     ` David Bremner

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