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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Attic Hermit <fjdksl@cock.li>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Is there a prefix that performs from: and to: simultaneously?
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Attic Hermit <fjdksl@cock.li> writes:

> Batch file of my initial tagging script includes queries like below:
>
> +john +friend -- tag:new AND from:john@example.tld
> +john +friend -- tag:new AND to:john@example.tld
>
> But I want to compress the above in one line like:
>
> +john +friend -- tag:new AND from_or_to:john@example.tld
>

How about

+john +friend -- tag:new AND (to:john@example.tld OR from:john@example.tld)

?