Re: Strange match to my query

Subject: Re: Strange match to my query

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15:22 -0800

To: Mark Anderson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jameson Rollins


On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:00:51 -0700, Mark Anderson <MarkR.Anderson@amd.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:29:05 -0600, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> > So I am in fact still seeing this bug, although I am ostensibly using a
> > version that includes the patch to fix it (db70f3f0).  Does this fix
> > require rebuilding the database?
> 
> Yes.
>
> The termlist is constructed when the message is added to the database,
> so the database must be reconstructed.
> 
> Newer messages will index email addresses so that they can't be matched
> by overlapping term indexes.  However, the corpus of your database is
> not going to change without manual intervention.

Ok, that's what I thought.  Thanks for the feedback, Mark.
 
> A simple rebuild when you go to bed can look like:

I think you're missing an important step:

notmuch dump >dump.txt
mv $(notmuch config get database.path){,.bak}
notmuch new
notmuch restore dump.txt

but I get the idea ;)

Thanks again.

jamie.
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