Re: Aliases in notmuch queries

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