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+Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:53:43 -0000\r
+Subject: Re: Inspired but need help searching folder names containing spaces\r
+From: "Matthew Lear" <matt@bubblegen.co.uk>\r
+To: "David Bremner" <david@tethera.net>\r
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+\r
+Hi David,\r
+\r
+>> notmuch search 'folder:"Deleted Items"'\r
+>>\r
+>> .. throws up zero results.\r
+>>\r
+>\r
+> Hmm. I tried to duplicate your situation here, and it works for me. Two\r
+> things to try:\r
+>\r
+> 1) notmuch search --output=files $QUERY\r
+>\r
+> where $QUERY is some query (using e.g. id:) that matches one of those\r
+> messages. Check that you have have the whole anchored path from the top\r
+> level.\r
+>\r
+> 2) NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY=1 notmuch count -'folder:"Deleted Items"'\r
+>\r
+> have a look for XFOLDER:Deleted Items\r
+>\r
+> 3) try both of the above with "--exclude=false" in case you have tagged\r
+> them with an excluded tag. Note that by default "deleted" is such a tag.\r
+> You can change the excluded tags with "notmuch config"\r
+\r
+As part of still playing around with notmuch and strategies for tagging\r
+etc, I decided to start afresh with the database so I deleted it. After\r
+running notmuch new, I could quite happily search with notmuch search\r
+'folder:"Deleted Items"'. This surprised me greatly because I know that I\r
+didn't apply any tags to mails in Deleted Items (couldn't find any in\r
+there to tag) and I also already tried searching with --exclude=false. In\r
+any case, it seems that searching in folders with spaces now works. Hurrah\r
+:-)\r
+\r
+A couple of others things have surprised me, though. Using the date search\r
+option, such as date:"today" or date:"yesterday", hasn't quite thrown up\r
+what I expected. Searching with date:"today" shows up no results (which I\r
+know is wrong) and searching with date:"yesterday" shows up a handful of\r
+emails all from the same person, in different threads which all arrived on\r
+a day in May 2014... Got to be a bug there somewhere :-D\r
+\r
+One last thing which I'd like to explore if I may is searching for emails\r
+sent to me. By default, I think notmuch classes 'to me' as 'to or cc or\r
+bcc me'. Is there a way to search/filter on emails sent only to me (ie\r
+where my name / address is only in the to: field in the message header)?\r
+This seems a reasonable requirement / use case so I'm assuming that\r
+there's a good reason that notmuch views it differently.\r
+\r
+An example is an automated bug tracking system which sends emails to the\r
+current assignee of the bug (to) and also watchers (cc). I'd like to be\r
+able to filter these emails differently (ie bugs I'm watching versus bugs\r
+I'm responsible for fixing). Apart from using other fields in the message\r
+body (which may be subject to change), there doesn't seem an easy way to\r
+do this which is surprising given notmuch's flexibility and power.\r
+\r
+Thoughts?\r
+\r
+I'm still exploring strategies for tagging and searching etc. The links on\r
+the wiki are helpful. The possibilities are almost infinite and while\r
+everybody's mail is different, having a great deal of flexibility can\r
+sometimes makes it tricky to decide on exactly what's best. Still, it's an\r
+enjoyable task, despite being time consuming, and is well worth the\r
+effort.\r
+\r
+ Matt\r
+\r
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