tags vs. show
Paul Tarvydas
paultarvydas at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 08:25:30 PDT 2015
I'm having a problem with "notmuch show" producing too many results.
Can somebody tell me how to "notmuch show" only emails that a specific tag?
Specifics (linux mint, emacs 24.3.1):
I run this tagging query at the command line:
> notmuch tag +xyz -- '(to:xyz at me.com or from:xyz at me.com or cc:xyz at me.com)'
In emacs, notmuch-hello, I search
tag:xyz
and I get a buffer of emails that I expect.
Then, I run on the command line:
> notmuch show --format=mbox "tag:xyz" >xyz-all.txt
the resulting xyz-all.txt contains many other emails (e.g. spam from
linkedin, etc).
In the end, I want to create a new gmail account containing only the
above tagged emails. I will upload it with:
> python imap_upload.py --gmail --box inbox --error Friends.err --user
xyz --password xyz xyz-all.txt
I did this several years ago and see, from my scripts, that I had the
same problem. I worked around it by clearing tags, then creating an
exclusion tag and tagging everything with that and, etc. ... I would
prefer to know how to do this exactly, this time.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
pt
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