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14 From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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15 To: Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>, Not Much Mail
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25 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch: Add tag archive when archiving the
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41 On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:58 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> wrote:
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42 > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
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43 > > I think you can just use 'not tag:inbox' as 'archived' really just means
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44 > > 'doesn't have the inbox tag'.
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46 > That resulted in an error for me:
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48 > $ notmuch search not tag:inbox
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49 > A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> NOT <expression>
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50 > A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> NOT <expression>
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52 Like I said earlier. I think that's a bug we should report to the Xapian
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55 Meanwhile, it just occurred to me that we can make "notmuch search not
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56 tag:inbox" work without any change to Xapian.
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58 For every document we store in the database we put a special term on it
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59 to indicate its type. (We mostly just have documents of type "mail" but
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60 we also have documents of type "timestamp"---see the comment at the top
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61 of lib/database.cc for details.)
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63 So if we take the string "not tag:inbox" and turn it into "type:mail and
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64 not tag:inbox" then that will work just fine. (That's close to what
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65 we're doing currently, but different. Right now we try to parse the
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66 query "not tag:inbox" on its own and then combine the result with
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67 another query generated from a term representing the "mail" type.)
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