Possible some threads are not complete due to bug?

[Xu Wang]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You should include a reference to the original message, not everyone
> will remember the thread.
>
>   id:20150614082258.GD17381 at chitra.no-ip.org or
>   <http://mid.gmane.org/20150614082258.GD17381@chitra.no-ip.org>

Ah yes thank you.

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes I need to do:
>>
>> $ notmuch search --output=threads "id:MYMSGID"
>> thread:000000000000a125
>> $ notmuch search --output=messages "thread:000000000000a125"
>
> Looking at the script again, I see I assumed a message will belong to a
> single thread.  You can remove that assumption by applying the following
> change.
>
> -----8<--------------------8<-----
> diff -u nm-ack nm-ack
> --- nm-ack      2015-06-15 01:30:40.327556510 +0200
> +++ nm-ack      2015-09-13 07:58:30.734096931 +0200
> @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
>  # debug
>  # set -o xtrace
>
> -declare query="$1" thread=$(notmuch search --output=threads -- "$1")
> -declare -a msgs=$(notmuch search --output=messages -- "$thread") responses
> +declare query="$1"
> +declare -a thread=$(notmuch search --output=threads -- "$1")
> +declare -a msgs=$(notmuch search --output=messages -- "${thread[@]}") responses
>
>  function strip_mid() {
>      sed -e 's/ \+//g' -e 's/<\([^ <>]\+\)>/\1/g'
> ----->8-------------------->8-----
>
>> In theory, this should output the message that responded to message ID
>> "MYMSGID". Sometimes it works. But sometimes it does not work. That
>> is, there exists an email where I am sure (I checked the raw email)
>> that there is a header
>> In-Reply-To: <MYMSGID>
>> but that email does not show when I do the two commands above.
>> Indeed, that mail belongs to a different thread ID.
>>
>> I am just curious if the above is due to:
>>
>> 1. My missing of understanding of how notmuch deals with threads
>> 2. A bug or missing feature in notmuch causes some threads to be incomplete
>
> Interesting issue.  I can think of a case, say a message is cross-posted
> to multiple lists, it might then give you more than one thread ids.  Is
> this the case for your message?  If you are up for it, look in
> lib/thread.cc.  I think the relevant methods are:
> _resolve_thread_relationships and _notmuch_thread_create, but I could be
> wrong.  I'm not familiar with the notmuch source.
>
> As I recall, you are using mutt-kz; does <entire-thread> work from
> mutt-kz?  I would expect that to fail too.  It gets the thread id like
> this:
>
>   id = notmuch_message_get_thread_id(msg);
>
> Hope this helps,

Thanks so very much as always Suvayu. I learn a great amount of
knowledge from you.
I tried the fixes and nothing changed. The message IDs had different
threads. <entire-thread> did not work in mutt-kz. However, when I
viewed [all mail] (from Gmail) so that the messages were in the same
mailbox, mutt recognized they were a thread (in the sense of the
down-right arrow signifying a reply).

In the end, I removed the .notmuch folder and ran 'notmuch new' to
regenerate everything. This worked! However I am wondering why I had
to do that. Is there any case where doing a complete refresh should be
done as opposed to "notmuch new" (which I do all the time)?
It appears that thread detection works different when adding messages
as opposed to a complete refresh?

Kind regards,

Xu

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