Notmuch as search engine

Notmuch as search engine

[Laura Conrad]

I am indexing my  mail directory with "notmuch new", and when I search
from the command line, I can get the amount of hits that I would
expect.  However, the format they're in doesn't seem to be what I would
expect, and I can't find the mail file from them, and neither can gnus.

The command line search returns something like:

notmuch search scuttle
thread:00000000000208d9  Today 00:11 [5/7] Laura Conrad, Alan Zhou, Zeke
Kaufman, Daniel Tate| Sandra Patterson; Board decision (attachment inbox
unread)

And what gnus tells me when I do "G G" is:

gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn’t request group nnir:nnir-87zgkqclfi.fsf:
Search produced empty results.

I would expect this to be /home/lconrad/Mail/sent/32974, but I don't see
how either I or gnus could figure that out from the notmuch output.

Am I running notmuch wrong?  Lots of people (including people on this
list) seem to be using it with gnus, so it must be possible.

-- 
Laura   (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org)
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Leonardo da Vinci

Re: Notmuch as search engine

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:

> I am indexing my  mail directory with "notmuch new", and when I search
> from the command line, I can get the amount of hits that I would
> expect.  However, the format they're in doesn't seem to be what I would
> expect, and I can't find the mail file from them, and neither can gnus.
>
> The command line search returns something like:
>
> notmuch search scuttle
> thread:00000000000208d9  Today 00:11 [5/7] Laura Conrad, Alan Zhou, Zeke
> Kaufman, Daniel Tate| Sandra Patterson; Board decision (attachment inbox
> unread)
>
> And what gnus tells me when I do "G G" is:
>
> gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn’t request group nnir:nnir-87zgkqclfi.fsf:
> Search produced empty results.
>
> I would expect this to be /home/lconrad/Mail/sent/32974, but I don't see
> how either I or gnus could figure that out from the notmuch output.
>
> Am I running notmuch wrong?  Lots of people (including people on this
> list) seem to be using it with gnus, so it must be possible.

The format of notmuch's search results depends on the switches it is
called with. If you use "--output=files" it will give you filenames.

I'm curious how you're using notmuch from within Gnus. Both the "old"
nnir library and the "new" gnus-search library know to use the correct
--output switch. What version of Emacs/Gnus are you using?

Eric