Fwd: notmuch collects empty tags/labels

Subject: Fwd: notmuch collects empty tags/labels

Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:39:48 -0400

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From: prowess-alarm-much@duck.com


Dear developers and maintainers,

I'm a fan of notmuch, but recently notmuch indexed 1679 messages with
an empty tag, when I run: notmuch count -- tag:

When I look for some of the messages in this list, I get messages that
have some tags already, and messages with no tags, but somehow,
notmuch seems to consider the existence of a "" tag. And the outcome
is the same, whether I search for: tag:,tag:'', or even
tag:"". Even together with other tags.

It is a tag in the sense that I can look for specific messages with
that empty tag.

if I try
tag remove-all +untagged -- tag
I get 1679 messages tagged with "untagged" as well as "".

if I try:
tag remove-all -- tag:
I get no errors, notmuch will remove all tags, but the empty tag will remain.

I'm running latest stable notmuch 0.37(?) on Debian/WSL2/Win11 if that helps.

Thanks and keep up the great work!
Pam
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