non-threaded view

non-threaded view

[Berthold Lorke]

hey!

i am having problems (i have already asked reddit and stackexchange) with finding a solution to viewing emails in a non threaded view.  that is i would like to view every single message from a thread in their strict chronological place, instead of having the search results only show the whole thread as one thing at the chronological point of the most recent email in that thread.

i tried the notmuch-search(1) option "--output=messages", but it kind of didn't work, it only displayed a very very small subset of my thousands of emails, and the option "--output=threads" or "--output=summary" (neither of which i want, i just did this to try it out) had the same problem with only showing very very few results.  am i not understanding this option?

thank you for your help in advance!

Re: non-threaded view

[David Bremner]

Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de> writes:

> i tried the notmuch-search(1) option "--output=messages", but it kind
> of didn't work, it only displayed a very very small subset of my
> thousands of emails, and the option "--output=threads" or
> "--output=summary" (neither of which i want, i just did this to try it
> out) had the same problem with only showing very very few results.  am
> i not understanding this option?

Is there some notmuch command that does find all of your mail?
It sounds like notmuch is not indexing most of your messages. Does
"notmuch count '*'" match the output of
"notmuch search --output=messages | wc -l"

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Re: non-threaded view

[David Bremner]

Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de> writes:

> thanks!  no it doesn't.  i guess there then is in fact an indexing error.
>
> you omitted a search term in the second line, i tried '*', with wildly different numbers.
>
> what could be the problem i have with indexing?

I can't really understand what would cause

"notmuch count '*'" to output something different than

"notmuch search --output='*' | wc -l".

I was thinking if they were both small, but equal, that would indicate
"notmuch new" skipping many files.