From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Folder-based searching
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyh9wzs2.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
I'm as sad as anyone to see that I let more than a month go by without
committing to the notmuch repository.
But I've just now committed the much-desired folder-based search
feature.
This should be a handy feature for people bringing mail in from a system
that stores information in the directories in which mail is stored, (one
common case is users fetching mail from gmail via imap---in this case
all gmail tags will be represented as directories).
Someone bringing in mail from such a system might want to migrate from
information in directory names to instead be information in notmuch
tags. That might look something like this:
notmuch tag +important folder:important
Or it might be useful to run on several directories:
for dir in *; do notmuch tag +"$dir"; folder:"$dir"; done
etc.
Please note that with the code in git currently, only newly incorporated
mail will be searchable via the "folder:" specification. So if you're
wanting to search your entire email collection, you may want to rebuild
your entire notmuch database. As a reminder, that process is something
like the following:
notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
rm -rf ~/mail/.notmuch # Careful with this! Have backups in place!
notmuch new # Of course, this can take a long time
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
Before the next release, I plan to increment the database version so
that users will be notified of the need to do an upgrade like this. (But
before I do that, I plan to implement a few more database changes---and
some of them are likely to be much more invasive than this one).
Have fun out there!
-Carl
next reply other threads:[~2011-01-15 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-15 22:46 Carl Worth [this message]
2011-01-17 6:17 ` Folder-based searching Xavier Maillard
2011-01-17 12:43 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2011-01-17 13:00 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2011-03-12 23:44 ` [PATCH] test: "search-by-folder" single-word search terms should be updated correctly when directories are renamed Pieter Praet
2011-05-12 13:22 ` Pieter Praet
2011-05-12 16:04 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-05-13 8:06 ` [PATCH] test: do folder-based search with a single-term path after moving message Pieter Praet
2011-01-17 18:48 ` Folder-based searching Rob Browning
2011-01-18 19:09 ` Carl Worth
2011-01-18 19:54 ` Rob Browning
2011-01-18 20:16 ` Carl Worth
2011-01-19 7:29 ` Austin Clements
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-21 10:45 mazieres-6kd3dvy8f9kx6dc7vcsytfvnai
2011-01-21 16:59 ` Carl Worth
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