Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave

Subject: Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave

Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:31:19 -0300

To: Xu Wang, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> writes:

> I bump this. Actually more simple than that, how to search for thread
> in which I have participated and Jian has participated? Excluding
> threads in which Dave participated is perhaps more complicated.

I don't know of an efficient way to do this. You could write a script
something like

notmuch search --output=threads from:Xu  > A
notmuch search --output=threads from:Jian  > B
comm -12 A B

I think the output is sorted, but you might also have to sort A and B


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