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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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29 Subject: Re: Unexpected search results
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52 Paul Melis <paul.melis@surfsara.nl> writes:
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56 > How exactly does the search function work when it comes to things like
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57 > searching in the from or subject field? See the below queries and (lack
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60 > paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:dem
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61 > paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demi
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62 > paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiu
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63 > paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiur
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64 > paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiurg
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65 > thread:0000000000012d53 January 18 [1/5] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis, XXXXX
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66 > thread:0000000000011b82 November 14 [3/6] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis; XXXXX
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68 > Only the last queries returns the mails I was looking for, while
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69 > prefixes of the query don't return anything. Even stranger is that the
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70 > actual from e-mail address is demiurghg@...., so why does "from:demiurg"
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71 > match (which is also a prefix of the mail address), but all the other
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74 I guess it has to do with the mysteries of stemming. There is some
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77 http://notmuchmail.org/searching/
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79 In your case, it would probably help to try
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81 notmuch search from:"demi*"
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83 Note that the * only works at the end.
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