From: David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>
To: Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org>,
David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: i do not have INBOX
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:20:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uaxh94tya89.fsf@belohrad.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760l9u408.fsf@istari.evenmere.org>
Dear all,
thanks for hint, i'm however not sure how to apply this on afew, which i'd like to use to move the mails around. The 'default' afew example config is similar to this:
[MailMover]
folders = INBOX .Trash
INBOX = 'tag:deleted':.Trash
.Trash = 'NOT tag:deleted':INBOX
if i'm however not able to specify folder as empty, this would not work, right? (i know, this is rather question for Justus, author of afew, hence putting in copy)
.d.
Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org> writes:
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> my directory does not contain INBOX, as inside the Maildir folder is
>>> directly /cur, /new, /tmp. How do I search in this particular one?
>>
>> Quoting notmuch-search-terms(7)
>>
>> The exact syntax for maildir folders depends on your mail configura‐
>> tion. For maildir++, folder:"" matches the inbox folder (which is the
>> root in maildir++), other folder names always start with ".", and
>> nested folders are separated by "."s, such as folder:.classes.topol‐
>> ogy. For "file system" maildir, the inbox is typically folder:INBOX
>> and nested folders are separated by slashes, such as
>> folder:classes/topology.
>>
>>> The question is related to usage of 'afew' to move all mails which
>>> have 'deleted' tag into Trash folder (which I have under .Trash)
>>
>> Hopefully the above is enough to help you formulate the right query.
>> You probably also want the options --format=text0 and --output=files for
>> notmuch search.
>
> The next paragraph of that man page has an important warning for anyone
> planning on re-arranging files based on the results of notmuch:
>
> Both path: and folder: will find a message if any copy of that
> message is in the specific directory/folder.
>
> It's important to filter the names (e.g., `notmuch ...|grep -Fzv
> /.|xargs -Ifoo mv foo $MAILDIR/.Trash/cur/`) before relying on them.
>
> -Brian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-20 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-20 11:11 i do not have INBOX David Belohrad
2017-01-20 12:45 ` David Bremner
2017-01-20 15:48 ` Brian Sniffen
2017-01-20 16:20 ` David Belohrad [this message]
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