Hi Carl (et al), Thanks for notmuch. It's making my email setup a bit more efficient. I used to be a filter to differnt mbox kind of person, but I'm a changed man now !! Just wondered, is it possible to negate a search in notmuch for emacs? I have a bunch of stuff that is in my inbox that I don't want to see and have tried doing things like -googlealerts-noreply -from:googlealerts-noreply But it looks like the '-' is ignored.... Is there a way of getting filtering? It looks like it's possible from the command line application (with - and + on search terms). Regards, David