From: Paul Melis Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:10:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Unexpected search results X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d40184dc29b71187aff39718caf983adf916afb6;p=notmuch-archives.git Unexpected search results --- diff --git a/21/8562f6a5d40a62092b7bec600d4824a326edb3 b/21/8562f6a5d40a62092b7bec600d4824a326edb3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..28e62da08 --- /dev/null +++ b/21/8562f6a5d40a62092b7bec600d4824a326edb3 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F53F431FBD + for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:16:00 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id GlCco8kfRbXp for ; + Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:15:47 -0800 (PST) +X-Greylist: delayed 324 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at olra; + Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:15:47 PST +Received: from smtp.sara.nl (sara-exch-fe1.ka.sara.nl [145.100.8.49]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 58E26431FBC + for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:15:47 -0800 (PST) +Received: from sara11006.ka.sara.nl (145.100.6.197) by smtp.sara.nl + (145.100.8.49) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.347.0; + Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:10:13 +0100 +Message-ID: <52E63086.1050001@surfsara.nl> +Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:10:14 +0100 +From: Paul Melis +Organization: SURFsara +User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; + rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 +MIME-Version: 1.0 +To: +Subject: Unexpected search results +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit +X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:10:05 -0800 +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +Reply-To: paul.melis@surfsara.nl +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:16:00 -0000 + +Hi, + +How exactly does the search function work when it comes to things like +searching in the from or subject field? See the below queries and (lack +of) results: + +paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:dem +paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demi +paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiu +paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiur +paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiurg +thread:0000000000012d53 January 18 [1/5] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis, XXXXX +thread:0000000000011b82 November 14 [3/6] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis; XXXXX + +Only the last queries returns the mails I was looking for, while +prefixes of the query don't return anything. Even stranger is that the +actual from e-mail address is demiurghg@...., so why does "from:demiurg" +match (which is also a prefix of the mail address), but all the other +don't match? + +Thanks for a great tool, btw! + +Regards, +Paul + + +-- +** SURFsara heeft een nieuw algemeen telefoonnummer: 020 800 1300 ** + +Paul Melis +| Groepsleider & Adviseur Visualisatie | SURFsara | +| Science Park 140 | 1098 XG Amsterdam | +| T 020 592 30 59 | paul.melis@surfsara.nl | www.surfsara.nl |