From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:29:36 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'
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Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'
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+Cc: Austin Clements <amdragon@gmail.com>
+Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'
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+Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca> writes:
+
+>
+> I ran into this problem before as well. Storage is cheap. Notmuch could
+> index all emails with reversed text to get around some of this
+> problem. It doesn't solve the problem of *analysis*, but it's still an
+> improvement.
+
+It would probably be more useful to have brute force regexp searches on
+headers.  Austin did some experiments that sounded promising, where you
+basically postprocess the result of a xapian query with a regexp. OTOH,
+I don't know what kept him from proposing this for mainline. If it was
+just parser issues, those are probably more or less solved now, at least
+for people using xapian 1.3+
+
+d