excluding files from a folder for searches

excluding files from a folder for searches

[Alan Schmitt]

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Hello,

I'm trying to configure notmuch such that it never searches for files in
my Trash folder. I have found in the configuration how to exclude some
tags from every search, but not how to exclude a folder.

Is it possible?

Thanks a lot,

Alan

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Re: excluding files from a folder for searches

[David Bremner]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to configure notmuch such that it never searches for files in
> my Trash folder. I have found in the configuration how to exclude some
> tags from every search, but not how to exclude a folder.
>
> Is it possible?
>

One thing you can do is mark the trash folder to be ignored by 
notmuch new. See the new.ignore setting in man notmuch-config(1).

d

Re: excluding files from a folder for searches

[Alan Schmitt]

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On 2014-07-16 21:10, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

>> I'm trying to configure notmuch such that it never searches for files in
>> my Trash folder. I have found in the configuration how to exclude some
>> tags from every search, but not how to exclude a folder.
>>
>> Is it possible?
>
> One thing you can do is mark the trash folder to be ignored by 
> notmuch new. See the new.ignore setting in man notmuch-config(1).

Thank you for the suggestion, I've added ".Trash" to this list. As the
current messages will be deleted in about a week, it should be fine.

By the way, how will notmuch realize that the messages are no longer
there? Does it still scan the directory when it's in new.ignore?

Thanks again,

Alan

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Re: excluding files from a folder for searches

[David Bremner]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

>
> By the way, how will notmuch realize that the messages are no longer
> there? Does it still scan the directory when it's in new.ignore?
>

No, I think you'll have to do something manual like remove the directory
from the ignore list, move the directory out of the way, an re-run
notmuch new.

Re: excluding files from a folder for searches

[Alan Schmitt]

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On 2014-07-17 11:38, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> By the way, how will notmuch realize that the messages are no longer
>> there? Does it still scan the directory when it's in new.ignore?
>
> No, I think you'll have to do something manual like remove the directory
> from the ignore list, move the directory out of the way, an re-run
> notmuch new.

That worked great, thanks a lot!

Alan

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