From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:11:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: thread id specification
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Re: thread id specification
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: thread id specification
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+Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au> writes:
+
+> Can anyone in-the-know shed some light on how notmuch generates its
+> thread ids? Until recently, I'd only seen numeric thread ids 16
+> characters long, padded with zeroes. For example:
+>
+> thread:0000000000000001
+> thread:0000000000000002
+> thread:0000000000000005
+> etc etc
+>
+> Today, several new threads were created with non numeric ids:
+>
+> thread:000000000000000d
+> thread:000000000000000e
+> thread:000000000000000f
+>
+
+Those are numbers too, just hexadecimal.
+
+d