Re: Search mail from people with different addresses and incorrectly configured clients

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: Search mail from people with different addresses and incorrectly\r
+ configured clients\r
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+Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca> writes:\r
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+>\r
+> Has anyone found a good way to use tags to aggregate emails from the\r
+> same person? Will it have some disadvantages? It sounds straightforward,\r
+> but the management of this would be quite an effort.\r
+>\r
+> The alternative is to create long search strings that encompass all\r
+> email addresses of the person. This has less management effort, but I\r
+> would need to somewhere store all email addresses associated with a person.\r
+\r
+It sounds like some variation on named queries [1] might help.  It would\r
+still be a manual process to set up the aliases, but at least once it\r
+was done, it would work everywhere (e.g. command line, emacs client,\r
+python bindings).  These would be prefixed with query:, so to search for\r
+you I'd use query:seb. I was thinking a little about having aliases for\r
+the other prefixes (in particular "to:", and "from:" since to:me and\r
+from:me are common requests). There would be some potential\r
+performance impact because the extra database lookup to expand the\r
+alias, and also some potential confusion. If I make an alias for to:bob,\r
+what if I actually want to search for the term bob? I guess we could\r
+invent some syntax to prevent alias expansion, but I'm not sure what's\r
+possible with current Xapian.\r
+\r
+\r
+[1]: id:1459015043-8460-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net\r