On 10/03/2015 08:10, David Bremner wrote: > [..] In fact the NM_myTopLevelFolder doesn't seem useful to me, > since you don't gain any new queries that way. > > So if you have .foo.* and .bar.*, I would > > mkdir foo > ln -rs .foo.* -t foo
I had forgotten I could make a maildir without initial . just as well - thus removing the need for my silly prefix: with dot is a normal maildir, without is a top-level Notmuch symlink container. > in notmuch jargon, the number of _messages_ does not increase but > rather the number of _files_. That makes sense since, from what I read in notmuch-insert.c, the messages are identified by message-id and therefore counted only once however many times they are encountered during notmuch new. > so --remove-dups becomes > mandatory in any search query > Based on the name, I'd suspect "remove-dups" corresponds roughly to the > default behaviour of notmuch in reporting results. Yes, though --duplicate=N is only supported with --output=files and --output=messages, and it is not even appear the default there since { NOTMUCH_OPT_INT, &ctx->dupe, "duplicate", 'D', 0 } in notmuch-search.c Otherwise it does behaves as implicitly removing duplicates, which was somewhat confusing me until I understood notmuch's conceptual distinction between files and messages. > notmuch count not 'path:list/**' > and > notmuch count not 'path:list/**' and from:bremner > > work as expected. Indeed they do - both with notmuch and notmuch-mutt... I just had to struggle a bit until I realized that my notmuch-mutt --output-dir is inside the maildir indexed by notmuch... So the number of result and duplicates varied according to what state the symlink results maildir was in when I last indexed the whole thing... Yes, I do need the --output-dir to be inside the maildir because the IMAP server lets me have my search results in any MUA I happen to be using (Thunderbird, K-9 or Outlook for example). And by the way, maybe notmuch-mutt should be named notmuch-maildir or notmuch-symlinks : the mutt part is just about setting the macros in ~/.muttrc - everything else is generic to anything that can read a maildir. So my indexing command is now : notmuch tag +nmsearchresult 'path:.=Search/**' && notmuch new With ~/.notmuch-config now containing: [search] exclude_tags=deleted;spam;nmsearchresult And it works. I would have prefered explicit folder inclusion/exclusion at query time and path inclusion/exclusion at indexing time... But I guess I'll get used to notmuch's logic of tagging everything and then using the tags. Thank you for your kind guidance !