From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Correcting message references
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 13:37:41 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7nf50ve.fsf@minkowski.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pm7wp0q3.fsf@gmail.com>
Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> writes:
> is completely unconnected the other 4 messages in the thread. Note
> that if I change the "In-Reply-To" field in this message to anything
> else, notmuch no longer groups these 5 messages into a single thread.
>
Yes, that's puzzling. I did not think about "ghost messages" (see below)
when writing that script, so maybe that's the issue.
> I tried searching for "jwvczk7opm8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org" using `xapian-delve` but got
>
> ,----
> | term 'jwvczk7opm8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org' not in database
> `----
You need to give the appropriate term prefix. Q for message id,
or XREPLYTO or XREFERENCE as in my last message.
> The first one is the draft. The second hit is the reason I thought the
> only place left for notmuch to associate these messages is in the
> xapian database. Note that if I delete the draft and reindex, only the
> postlist.glass hit stubbornly remains and there seems to be no way to
> make notmuch forget about this ID.
As long as some message refers to that ID, notmuch will create a "ghost
message", used for threading.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-22 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-21 15:11 Correcting message references Al Haji-Ali
2023-04-22 11:09 ` David Bremner
2023-04-22 12:20 ` Al Haji-Ali
2023-04-22 16:37 ` David Bremner [this message]
2023-04-22 16:44 ` David Bremner
2023-04-23 8:19 ` Al Haji-Ali
[not found] ` <87r0s8141e.fsf@tethera.net>
2023-04-25 19:40 ` David Bremner
2023-04-25 21:20 ` Al Haji-Ali
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