perfect match of subject search

perfect match of subject search

[David Belohrad]

Dear all,

some advice would be appreciated. I use spamassassin to tag all spam by !!!!!SPAM!!!!! such, that during notmuch tagging process i could filter them away from my inbox. Problem is, that no matter what, I cannot search on subject exactly. Hence if I write down:

notmuch search subject:"!!!!!SPAM!!!!!"

i get not only those with exact match, but I do get many others, who do not have in subject SPAM at all, even for example an email from recent discussion, with subject:

"Macros for notmuch and bayesian spam learner (dspam)"

so it completely ignores the exclamation, starts ... and maybe other things as well...

how can i specify the subject search term to look for only exact match?

thanks

.d.

Re: perfect match of subject search

[David Bremner]

David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> some advice would be appreciated. I use spamassassin to tag all spam by !!!!!SPAM!!!!! such, that during notmuch tagging process i could filter them away from my inbox. Problem is, that no matter what, I cannot search on subject exactly. Hence if I write down:
>
> notmuch search subject:"!!!!!SPAM!!!!!"
>
> i get not only those with exact match, but I do get many others, who do not have in subject SPAM at all, even for example an email from recent discussion, with subject:
>
> "Macros for notmuch and bayesian spam learner (dspam)"
>
> so it completely ignores the exclamation, starts ... and maybe other things as well...
>
> how can i specify the subject search term to look for only exact match?
>
> thanks
>
> .d.

There is a patch id:1467034387-16885-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net
; it needs more review before merging. Feel free to test it, it should
not change your database.

d