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 9C538431FB6 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:05:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.274 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.274 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RDNS_NONE=1.274] 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 gsXYsV9i7Wt4 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:05:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: delayed 551 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:05:12 PDT Received: from mgap.localdomain (unknown [46.4.49.10]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1398431FAE for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgap.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C658464E8 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mgap.co.uk Received: from mgap.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mgap.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OA-TQDrqBIXE for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from shooPC3 (cpc4-stev6-2-0-cust409.9-2.cable.virginmedia.com [213.107.185.154]) by mgap.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 051A08464E7 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:55:59 +0200 (CEST) From: "jake" To: Subject: Possible bug with notmuch search & --limit --offset Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:56:06 +0100 Message-ID: <000301cd23c5$174d6510$45e82f30$@mgap.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: Ac0jwsXQNJ5dU9G5QnKHlJCbu7LVAQ== Content-Language: en-gb 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: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:05:13 -0000 Hello, I'm finding that when I use the --limit option with the output=files and offset=N that the returned list of files is of variable length. For instance when: notmuch search --output=files --offset=6 --limit=2 steve it returns /var/spool/mail/virtual/archive/sl/.Sent/cur/1335243985.M765351P23366V000000 0000000801I0000000000820E9C_5.archive,S=275069:2,S /var/spool/mail/virtual/archive/sl/.Sent/cur/1335243986.M749883P23366V000000 0000000801I0000000000820E9D_6.archive,S=275069:2,S /var/spool/mail/virtual/archive/sl/.Sent/cur/1335243987.M926961P23366V000000 0000000801I0000000000820EA0_9.archive,S=111888:2,S /var/spool/mail/virtual/archive/sl/.Sent/cur/1335243988.M718230P23366V000000 0000000801I0000000000820EA1_10.archive,S=111888:2,S Which is two more results than required. If I choose different offset values then the number of returned results will vary too. If I issue: notmuch search --offset=6 --limit=2 steve It returns two results as expected, if I change the output type to anything other than files (summary/threads/messages/tags) then the correctly limited list is returned. So it only seems to happen with the files output type. Both json and text format types exhibit the same behaviour. Am I using this correctly ? I expect only two results to be returned but being new to notmuch gives me doubts that what I am doing may be incorrect. My apologies if the mailing list is not the place for this sort of report, please direct me to a more appropriate place. Many Thanks Jake