Aliases in notmuch queries
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Thu Jul 18 14:12:19 PDT 2013
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Often when searching for messages from these collaborators, I realise I
> cannot recall their real names (or cannot spell it correctly). It would
> be great if notmuch had a facility to map nicknames to real names;
> something like what git does with .mailmap.
>
> Does something like this exist? If not, is it feasible? I think it
> would be a great addition.
It might be possible to use xapian synonyms
http://xapian.org/docs/synonyms.html
to do this.
The basic synonym enabling doesn't look that hard, I think the fiddly
bits would be in loading up the synonyms at right time. We'd have to
think about how to sensibly store/backup this information so that
bindings users could have access to it.
d
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