From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:12:19 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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+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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+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