Unexpected search results

Subject: Unexpected search results

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:10:14 +0100

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Paul Melis


Hi,

How exactly does the search function work when it comes to things like 
searching in the from or subject field? See the below queries and (lack 
of) results:

paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:dem
paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demi
paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiu
paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiur
paulmlocal@sara11006:/data$ notmuch search from:demiurg
thread:0000000000012d53   January 18 [1/5] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis, XXXXX
thread:0000000000011b82  November 14 [3/6] Demiurg HG| Paul Melis; XXXXX

Only the last queries returns the mails I was looking for, while 
prefixes of the query don't return anything. Even stranger is that the 
actual from e-mail address is demiurghg@...., so why does "from:demiurg" 
match (which is also a prefix of the mail address), but all the other 
don't match?

Thanks for a great tool, btw!

Regards,
Paul


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