On 6 August 2010 00:25, Gregor Hoffleit <[email protected]> wrote: > I fell into these traps as well (there was a thread in this list two > months ago, search for this message: [email protected]). > > I started to rewrite the page SearchingMail in the Wiki: > http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?SearchingMail > > The information on that page should be correct, but certainly is not > complete. Neither is it easy to grok. > > As a start, the basic query language is described in > http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html. > > > Some stumbling points about searching in Sup: > > - By default, query terms are combined with AND > - Exception: Query terms within the same field type are combined as OR > > I.e. a search for "label:ruby-talk subject:\[ANN\]" (without the > quotes!) is equivalent to "label:ruby-talk AND subject:\[ANN\]". > > In contrast, the search "subject:apples subject:oranges" is equivalent > to "subject:apples OR subject:oranges"!
Ok, thanks for the information. How do I search for all messages not containing a label? I tried: not label:mylabel ! label:mylabel ~label:mylabel -label:mylabel The first finds no results. The rest are the same as "label:mylabel". What am I doing wrong here? What do the above searchs really do? -- Brian May <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
