From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 22:06:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?
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Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Jean-Marc Liotier <jm@liotier.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching
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+Jean-Marc Liotier <jm@liotier.org> writes:
+
+>
+> So nowadays, is there any other way to express "this folder and all its 
+> subfolders" ? The path: keyword does not seem useful for that with a 
+> maildir with a flat structure of dot.delimited.directories - or is there 
+> something like a dot.delimited.* wildcard ?
+>
+
+One option is to create symlink farm. Since it's only directories being
+symlinked, it isn't that bad.  I don't know how well this scales, but it
+seems to work for about 200k messages in 184 mailing lists. Roughly
+speaking:
+
+% mkdir list
+% cd list
+% ln -s ../.list.* .
+% mmv .list.* *  # zsh specific, optional
+% notmuch new
+
+Notmuch new took about 10 minutes, but now I can search
+
+'path:list/**'
+
+to add a second level
+
+% mkdir debian
+% cd debian
+% ln -s ../debian-* .
+% notmuch new
+
+Of course this could be scripted.