[notmuch] How to list archived mails
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:01 +0100, Carl Worth wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:35:26 +0530, aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com > (Aneesh Kumar K.V) wrote: > > Once i mark the mail as archived how do i search for them ? > > Right now with notmuch.el i am adding a tag "archive" when > > i am archiving the mail. I am just wondering is this the right > > way ? > > You might expect to be able to find all archived messages with: > > notmuch search not tag:inbox And now you can ignore everything else I said after this. Adrian Perez just discovered that we just weren't enabling an option in Xapian to allow this syntax to work. His commit is pushed, so now if you update your source *can* you use the above syntax and it should work just fine. Happy hacking, -Carl
[notmuch] How to list archived mails
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:35:26 +0530, aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com (Aneesh Kumar K.V) wrote: > Once i mark the mail as archived how do i search for them ? > Right now with notmuch.el i am adding a tag "archive" when > i am archiving the mail. I am just wondering is this the right > way ? You might expect to be able to find all archived messages with: notmuch search not tag:inbox (And if I had written the query parser that would work fine.) But oddly, that fails because in Xapian's query parser the NOT operator is not a unary operator but is instead a binary operator of AND_NOT. I think the lack of a unary not is a bug in Xapian. In the meantime, what we could use here is some syntax for a query that is guaranteed to match all messages. Anyone have any ideas? Meanwhile, if it's not that you're trying to list all archived messages, (which I think would be a rare thing to want), but instead you want all archived messages matching then you can simply do: notmuch search and not tag:inbox I hope that helps. Happy hacking, -Carl
[notmuch] How to list archived mails
Hi, Once i mark the mail as archived how do i search for them ? Right now with notmuch.el i am adding a tag "archive" when i am archiving the mail. I am just wondering is this the right way ? -aneesh
