Usage of tag:replied

[Wael Nasreddine]

Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Wael Nasreddine <wael.nasreddine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to take advantage of the tag:replied to give higher priority
>> to emails sent to very busy lists but it seems that it's not returning
>> the results that I am expecting.
>>
>>   $ notmuch search tag:unread AND from:lydia
>>   thread:000000000001a791  Today 17:20 [1/10] Lydia | Wael Nasreddine; ... (inbox replied unread work)
>>   $ notmuch search tag:unread AND tag:replied
>>
>> As you can see in the snippet above, I do have an email that has both
>> tags *unread* and *replied* but when I query for both, it does not
>> find that email (it does not find anything for that matters).
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Notmuch searches are message based. You don't have messages that have
> both unread and replied tags. The default output for notmuch search is
> thread summary, which includes combined tags of all messages in that
> thread. You have unread and replied in different messages in the same
> thread.
>

Is there a way to change that for a specific query in emacs? or do I
have to go with a solution like
id:5376517c.086b8c0a.bb5f.fffff90d at mx.google.com ?

Thanks,

Wael

> BR,
> Jani.
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