Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes: > On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu wrote: >> >> I'm using a pretty standard maildir++ layout. For example, underneath >> my database.path I have a bunch of mail in directories such as: >> >> .INBOX.Main/{new,cur} >> .mail.class/{new,cur} >> .mail.voicemail/{new,cur} >> ... > Here's additional commentary on the specific queries. > >> linux7$ ./notmuch count folder:mail >> 0 >> linux8$ ./notmuch count folder:.mail >> 0
Oh, man. That's a serious bummer. Is there any mechanism left that would let me hierarchically group messages? I've got a ton of mail.* folders, and create new ones dynamically. I really want a mechanism to group them hierarchically, so I can have a search that matches all current and future mail directories. I organized my whole mail setup around folders because a) tags do not provide this kind of hierarchical control, and b) there doesn't seem to be a convenient way to apply tags 100% reliably on message delivery, whereas I *can* control the folder 100% reliably. Worse, because of my poor performance, I was hoping to segregate messages by year. So it would be: 2013/.mail.class 2013/.mail.voicemail 2014/.mail.class 2014/.mail.voicemail All the way back. Now you are saying there will be no convenient way to match just the "mail.class" part without the year? How very distressing. Ugh. David