On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:12:38AM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: > One of the other things I like about notmuch is that I feel it has a > much more intuitive syntax. I could never remember which switches I > needed to use with mairix and mu. With notmuch, if I want to find > an email from j...@joe.com with a subject of 'work order', I can > usually just search 'joe work order' and get the correct email. > Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't mu and/or mairix require to use a > from: of f: tag and only match on complete addresses?
indeed wrong; mairix j...@joe.com mairix j...@joe.com work order will do exactly what most people would think it would do. It has some special treatment of email addresses in addition to that. The substring wildcard "=" is rather unusual but makes sense once you actually make use of the additional parameter (which does approximate matching). Is mairix the only option for mboxes? Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers