Hello all, As part of trying to cope with an extremely high amount of email at work, after a couple years of using X1 Search on Windows in conjunction with MS Outlook and many years getting incredibly frustrated at the lack of, and then failures of, email search features built into linux desktop environments such as KDE and Gnome, I craved a better tool for linux. Recently, I stumbled on the combination of offlineimap and notmuch and I'm convinced that this will make my world a better place. I'm still finding my way in terms of optimum ways to tag and filter my email, but this is a fun ongoing task that will continue over the coming weeks and months and I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. So firstly, thank you.
So...One thing I'm struggling with is searching for emails in folders which contain spaces in their name. The IMAP server at work is Exchange based and I have Inbox, Deleted Items and Sent Items folders (among many others) all at the same top level. I'm using the default offlineimap configuration which uses '.' as the separator. After a sync I have... mail/maildir/ ??? INBOX ??? Deleted Items ... ??? Sent Items ....on the file system. These directories have the cur, new and tmp sub directories associated with maildir. All ok so far. I have several emails in Deleted Items and Sent Items. I can ls and cat them just fine. What I cannot do, however, is search them with notmuch. Reading the very helpful replies in this thread (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2014/019053.html), I thought I'd stumbled on a solution. However, searching with.. notmuch search 'folder:"Deleted Items"' .. throws up zero results. Confusingly, if I sync a different IMAP account with offlineimap and index it with notmuch, I can successfully search folders which contain spaces in their name, but in that account, these folders exist *under* INBOX, eg mail/maildir2/ ??? INBOX ??? INBOX.Deleted Items ... ??? INBOX.Sent Items So searching with.. notmuch search 'folder:"INBOX.Deleted Items"' ..works. So why the difference? AFAICT the syntax I'm using is correct and should allow the string to be searched in the Xapian database. I just don't understand why one directory level seems to make a difference between a successful and an unsuccessful search. Any thoughts? If it helps I'm running notmuch 0.19 and xapian 1.2.18 on Gentoo linux. I suppose I don't need to sync Deleted Items, and I can tag -inbox emails sent by me, but I'd still like to be able to search both these folders if I need to. Can anybody help suggest what could be going wrong? Many thanks from a very happy new notmuch user. -- Matt