From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>, Notmuch list
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Subject: Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:19 -0300
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Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

>
> Often when searching for messages from these collaborators, I realise I
> cannot recall their real names (or cannot spell it correctly).  It would
> be great if notmuch had a facility to map nicknames to real names;
> something like what git does with .mailmap.
>
> Does something like this exist?  If not, is it feasible?  I think it
> would be a great addition.

It might be possible to use xapian synonyms

   http://xapian.org/docs/synonyms.html

to do this.

The basic synonym enabling doesn't look that hard, I think the fiddly
bits would be in loading up the synonyms at right time.  We'd have to
think about how to sensibly store/backup this information so that
bindings users could have access to it.

d