Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98DB41ED95 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:24 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.739 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.739 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL=2.438, MIME_QP_LONG_LINE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3B1lhIdT7emJ for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:21 -0800 (PST) X-Greylist: delayed 456 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:20 PST Received: from avasout06.plus.net (avasout06.plus.net [212.159.14.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9FAD431FCB for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.22] ([80.229.236.194]) by avasout06 with smtp id xKqE1p0014CLJ5401KqFr7; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:50:18 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=IIyMC2fG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=G4bc5lkgapKKm1P+Twxy3Q==:117 a=G4bc5lkgapKKm1P+Twxy3Q==:17 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=80hmnl3cAAAA:8 a=dFffnLBqAAAA:8 a=R_kyWn8I58ESfnoXU0oA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 References: <54E3BAE1.1030004@bubblegen.co.uk> <87pp97sldj.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> <87zj88wjgy.fsf@nikula.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: <87zj88wjgy.fsf@nikula.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <79D823A8-925A-478E-9734-9702C311A4F8@bubblegen.co.uk> X-Mailer: iPad Mail (11D257) From: Matthew Lear Subject: Re: Inspired but need help searching folder names containing spaces Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:50:16 +0000 To: Jani Nikula Cc: "notmuch@notmuchmail.org" X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:03:24 -0000 > On 20 Feb 2015, at 18:01, Jani Nikula wrote: >=20 >> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Matthew Lear wrote: >> A couple of others things have surprised me, though. Using the date searc= h >> option, such as date:"today" or date:"yesterday", hasn't quite thrown up >> what I expected. Searching with date:"today" shows up no results (which I= >> know is wrong) and searching with date:"yesterday" shows up a handful of >> emails all from the same person, in different threads which all arrived o= n >> a day in May 2014... Got to be a bug there somewhere :-D >=20 > This is a known limitation in the date: prefix queries. You have to > specify it as a range, for example date:today..today (from the beginning > of today until the end of today). If the underlying Xapian search engine > is not given a range expression (with the "..") it searches for the > words "date today" without punctuation, matching whatever it matches, > and notmuch does not even get an error for it. Thanks. Explains everything. Any thoughts on searching on 'to' only? I'm not= sure if this is also related to what Xapian needs to be provided with. If n= ot, and if only searching in the to, cc and bcc fields of the header is poss= ible, maybe we could consider adopting and integrating case sensitive syntax= in notmuch such as TO:me rather than to:me..? -- Matt=