folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, May 03 2014, dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu wrote:

> Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm using a pretty standard maildir++ layout.  For example, underneath
>>> my database.path I have a bunch of mail in directories such as:
>>>
>>>     .INBOX.Main/{new,cur}
>>>     .mail.class/{new,cur}
>>>     .mail.voicemail/{new,cur}
>>> ...
>> Here's additional commentary on the specific queries.
>>
>>>         linux7$ ./notmuch count folder:mail
>>>         0
>>>         linux8$ ./notmuch count folder:.mail
>>>         0
>
> Oh, man.  That's a serious bummer.
>
> Is there any mechanism left that would let me hierarchically group
> messages?  I've got a ton of mail.* folders, and create new ones
> dynamically.  I really want a mechanism to group them hierarchically, so
> I can have a search that matches all current and future mail
> directories.  I organized my whole mail setup around folders because a)
> tags do not provide this kind of hierarchical control, and b) there
> doesn't seem to be a convenient way to apply tags 100% reliably on
> message delivery, whereas I *can* control the folder 100% reliably.
>
> Worse, because of my poor performance, I was hoping to segregate
> messages by year.  So it would be:
>
>   2013/.mail.class
>   2013/.mail.voicemail
>   2014/.mail.class
>   2014/.mail.voicemail
>
> All the way back.  Now you are saying there will be no convenient way to
> match just the "mail.class" part without the year?  How very
> distressing.  Ugh.

I use git-style segregation where mails are scattered into 256
subdirectories under a directory (based on md5hash of the mail file
contents). By default mails go under received/??/. results:

$  notmuch count folder:received
3
(I seem to have 3 test emails under the root of  ~/.mail/received)

$  notmuch count folder:received/**
0
(Apparently unsupported search ;D -- I have setopt no_nomatch in my
zsh so it doesn't barf when 'folder:received/**' doesn't match anything
and that saves me quoting effort :D)

$ notmuch count path:received/
0
$ notmuch count path:received
3
(again)

$ notmuch count path:received/**
19439

That's probably right. Inconvenient syntax though (No, I am not complaining)

>
> David

Tomi

Lets briefly verify this...


$ find  ~/mail/received -type f | wc
  21151   21151 1353561

Hmm

$ ~/vc/projects/toomuch/check-mid-duplicates.pl mail/received | wc
mail/received/00/9feb4f33523a003768a22b2f9df8f9: no Message-ID
mail/received/10/10ab4e570fdd8bf744dad93d2f1c7a: no Message-ID
mail/received/32/60aef86b3bf8837c1c6a8a20d5d519: no Message-ID
mail/received/zap: 'from' or 'date' header missing, not a mail file ?
mail/received/e1/f1be5aa84c8b28d1056aa9a8bc5b4f: no Message-ID
mail/received/19/4c0e3e812721da11ad71dfe26f5b05: no Message-ID
mail/received/41/d7083964e92c70ed57a3c8afd4d1d6: no Message-ID
mail/received/96/22de40b7c48d3ff32101777eade693: no Message-ID
mail/received/e7/8f5b883692e79627d53cf607228b02: no Message-ID
mail/received/d1/248c296b7ce635848c442b4c06a9f2: no Message-ID
   1711   17110  331583

Uh huh, have to check what is going on there....