From 547218be0d866aeb1fa847d988164c4d75eafa85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Walters Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 19:54:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Re: search summary and exclusions --- f9/0ecbef6925e6c8e1842623867b964938a185fc | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) create mode 100644 f9/0ecbef6925e6c8e1842623867b964938a185fc diff --git a/f9/0ecbef6925e6c8e1842623867b964938a185fc b/f9/0ecbef6925e6c8e1842623867b964938a185fc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..65903e9af --- /dev/null +++ b/f9/0ecbef6925e6c8e1842623867b964938a185fc @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +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 D600D431FAF + for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 11:54:35 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -1.098 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.098 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, + NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] 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 9Ec93RCX2wG8 for ; + Mon, 28 May 2012 11:54:35 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail2.qmul.ac.uk (mail2.qmul.ac.uk [138.37.6.6]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D4AF431FAE + for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 11:54:35 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from smtp.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.6.40]) + by mail2.qmul.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.71) + (envelope-from ) + id 1SZ55J-0001bP-Fz; Mon, 28 May 2012 19:54:29 +0100 +Received: from 94-192-233-223.zone6.bethere.co.uk ([94.192.233.223] + helo=localhost) + by smtp.qmul.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) + (envelope-from ) + id 1SZ55J-0004f9-7B; Mon, 28 May 2012 19:54:29 +0100 +From: Mark Walters +To: Peter Wang , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: search summary and exclusions +In-Reply-To: <20120529000012.GF2331@hili.localdomain> +References: <20120529000012.GF2331@hili.localdomain> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.13+55~g992aa73 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 19:54:31 +0100 +Message-ID: <871um4nnko.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Sender-Host-Address: 94.192.233.223 +X-QM-SPAM-Info: Sender has good ham record. :) +X-QM-Body-MD5: 61e92b8b684f7dc1e3d9fe47d79834fe (of first 20000 bytes) +X-SpamAssassin-Score: -1.8 +X-SpamAssassin-SpamBar: - +X-SpamAssassin-Report: The QM spam filters have analysed this message to + determine if it is + spam. We require at least 5.0 points to mark a message as spam. + This message scored -1.8 points. + Summary of the scoring: + * -2.3 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, + * medium trust + * [138.37.6.40 listed in list.dnswl.org] + * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail + provider * (markwalters1009[at]gmail.com) + * -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay + * domain + * 0.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list +X-QM-Scan-Virus: ClamAV says the message is clean +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +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, 28 May 2012 18:54:36 -0000 + + +Hi + +On Mon, 28 May 2012, Peter Wang wrote: +> Hi, +> +> Exclusions don't work the way I expected with the search command and +> --output=summary. I would like messages with excluded tags to be +> treated as if they don't exist at all, but currently: +> +> * excluded messages are counted towards the "total" +> * excluded tags are included in the "tags" set +> +> Are these deliberate? Especially the second point seems to conflict +> with search --output=tags, which doesn't show excluded tags. + +The general idea is that commands that deciding whether something +matches the search checks the excludes but constructing a thread does +not. The difference in tags when outputting tags and summary is that the +former outputs tags of *messages* matching the query (so respects the +excludes) whereas summary outputs the tags of all messages in threads +matching the query (so does not respect the excludes) but see below for +more precise explanations. + +notmuch search --output=tags + +The tags from messages which match the search and are not excluded are +returned. + +notmuch search --output=threads + +returns all threads containing a message which matches the search and is +not excluded + +notmuch search --output=summary + +returns the summary output of all these threads. The summary output +includes all tags of all messages (whether excluded or not) of the +thread and the count is the number of messages (including excluded +messages) of the thread. + +This seems consistent with + +notmuch show --entire-thread + +which returns all messages (whether excluded or not) of all these +threads. + +Best wishes + +Mark -- 2.26.2