From: David Bremner Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:51:22 +0000 (+2100) Subject: Re: Search mail from people with different addresses and incorrectly configured clients X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a6e20ccafd5aa9f088ec7bab0d787696c3beff3;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Search mail from people with different addresses and incorrectly configured clients --- diff --git a/ed/f7e09f9b31995c6c8e0f9301106efd0ceae0da b/ed/f7e09f9b31995c6c8e0f9301106efd0ceae0da new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3cd2da0d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ed/f7e09f9b31995c6c8e0f9301106efd0ceae0da @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95606DE028C + for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 05:51:33 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.019 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.019 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[AWL=-0.008, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id RCV11NpZYUlo for ; + Sat, 9 Apr 2016 05:51:25 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 999B86DE0173 + for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 05:51:25 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) + id 1aosMQ-0001Pd-2B; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:51:34 -0400 +Received: (nullmailer pid 10475 invoked by uid 1000); + Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:51:22 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca, Notmuch Mail +Subject: Re: Search mail from people with different addresses and incorrectly + configured clients +In-Reply-To: <871t6fe9mq.fsf@uwaterloo.ca> +References: <871t6fe9mq.fsf@uwaterloo.ca> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+99~gd93d377 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 09:51:22 -0300 +Message-ID: <87y48n2bed.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:51:33 -0000 + +Sebastian Fischmeister writes: + +> +> Has anyone found a good way to use tags to aggregate emails from the +> same person? Will it have some disadvantages? It sounds straightforward, +> but the management of this would be quite an effort. +> +> The alternative is to create long search strings that encompass all +> email addresses of the person. This has less management effort, but I +> would need to somewhere store all email addresses associated with a person. + +It sounds like some variation on named queries [1] might help. It would +still be a manual process to set up the aliases, but at least once it +was done, it would work everywhere (e.g. command line, emacs client, +python bindings). These would be prefixed with query:, so to search for +you I'd use query:seb. I was thinking a little about having aliases for +the other prefixes (in particular "to:", and "from:" since to:me and +from:me are common requests). There would be some potential +performance impact because the extra database lookup to expand the +alias, and also some potential confusion. If I make an alias for to:bob, +what if I actually want to search for the term bob? I guess we could +invent some syntax to prevent alias expansion, but I'm not sure what's +possible with current Xapian. + + +[1]: id:1459015043-8460-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net