Quoth Mark Anderson on Jan 20 at 12:08 pm: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:29:23 -0600, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 18 at 12:14 am: > > > On Lu, 16 ian 12, 21:34:31, Austin Clements wrote: > > > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm: > > > > > Where can I read more about this? (except the source :) > > > > > > > > Most of this is in the Xapian query syntax document you found. Really > > > > we ought to beef-up Notmuch's query syntax documentation. > > > > > > If I get around to write something myself where do you suggest I should > > > start, the wiki or the manpage? > > > > Probably expanding man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7 would be the way to > > go. > > I would appreciate it if the limitations of id: search were explained > there too. I have some rules that I would love to make based on pattern > matching the message-id of the message, because I have a tool that > generates scads of email and I want to be able to delete a lot of it. > > I think that id: is only matchable as an entire string, and a > confirmation of that would be nice to see. This is true. thread:, id:, tag:, and is: are "boolean prefixes", which means they only match on entire strings. What sorts of message-id patterns did you want to search for?