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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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28 To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>, Notmuch list
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30 Subject: Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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53 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
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56 > Often when searching for messages from these collaborators, I realise I
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57 > cannot recall their real names (or cannot spell it correctly). It would
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58 > be great if notmuch had a facility to map nicknames to real names;
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59 > something like what git does with .mailmap.
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61 > Does something like this exist? If not, is it feasible? I think it
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62 > would be a great addition.
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64 It might be possible to use xapian synonyms
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66 http://xapian.org/docs/synonyms.html
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70 The basic synonym enabling doesn't look that hard, I think the fiddly
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71 bits would be in loading up the synonyms at right time. We'd have to
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72 think about how to sensibly store/backup this information so that
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73 bindings users could have access to it.
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