Searching from a folder
Austin Clements
amdragon at MIT.EDU
Sat Sep 29 09:12:18 PDT 2012
Quoth Damien Cassou on Sep 29 at 10:57 am:
> Hi,
>
> I can't make notmuch search return the list of mails in [Gmail]
> folders for a particular mailbox:
>
> ~ $ notmuch search folder:"[Gmail].All Mail"
> ~ $ notmuch search folder:[Gmail].Important
You need to properly escape these, both for the shell and for Xapian.
Try,
$ notmuch search 'folder:"[Gmail].All Mail"'
$ notmuch search 'folder:"[Gmail].Important"'
The single quotes are necessary to get the inner quoting through to
Xapian (lest the shell strip them away before notmuch even gets a hold
of its arguments) and the double quotes are necessary because folder
is a "probabilistic prefix", and one of many consequences of that is
that "folder:" won't be parsed as a prefix if it's followed by an
unusual character like '['.
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