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notmuch-search-terms
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SYNOPSIS
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========
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**notmuch** **count** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
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**notmuch** **dump** [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<*file*>] [--] [<*search-term*> ...]
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**notmuch** **search** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
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**notmuch** **show** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
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**notmuch** **tag** +<*tag*> ... -<*tag*> [--] <*search-term*> ...
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DESCRIPTION
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===========
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Several notmuch commands accept a common syntax for search terms.
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The search terms can consist of free-form text (and quoted phrases)
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which will match all messages that contain all of the given
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terms/phrases in the body, the subject, or any of the sender or
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recipient headers.
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As a special case, a search string consisting of exactly a single
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asterisk ("\*") will match all messages.
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In addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used to force
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terms to match against specific portions of an email, (where <brackets>
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indicate user-supplied values):
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- from:<name-or-address>
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- to:<name-or-address>
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- subject:<word-or-quoted-phrase>
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- attachment:<word>
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- mimetype:<word>
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- tag:<tag> (or is:<tag>)
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- id:<message-id>
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- thread:<thread-id>
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- folder:<maildir-folder>
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- path:<directory-path> or path:<directory-path>/**
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- date:<since>..<until>
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The **from:** prefix is used to match the name or address of the sender
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of an email message.
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The **to:** prefix is used to match the names or addresses of any
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recipient of an email message, (whether To, Cc, or Bcc).
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Any term prefixed with **subject:** will match only text from the
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subject of an email. Searching for a phrase in the subject is supported
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by including quotation marks around the phrase, immediately following
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**subject:**.
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The **attachment:** prefix can be used to search for specific filenames
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(or extensions) of attachments to email messages.
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The **mimetype:** prefix will be used to match text from the
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content-types of MIME parts within email messages (as specified by the
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sender).
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For **tag:** and **is:** valid tag values include **inbox** and
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**unread** by default for new messages added by **notmuch new** as well
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as any other tag values added manually with **notmuch tag**.
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For **id:**, message ID values are the literal contents of the
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Message-ID: header of email messages, but without the '<', '>'
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delimiters.
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The **thread:** prefix can be used with the thread ID values that are
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generated internally by notmuch (and do not appear in email messages).
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These thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from
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**notmuch search**
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The **path:** prefix searches for email messages that are in
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particular directories within the mail store. The directory must be
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specified relative to the top-level maildir (and without the leading
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slash). By default, **path:** matches messages in the specified
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directory only. The "/\*\*" suffix can be used to match messages in
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the specified directory and all its subdirectories recursively.
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**path:""** matches messages in the root of the mail store and,
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likewise, **path:\*\*** matches all messages.
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The **folder:** prefix searches for email messages by maildir or MH
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folder. For MH-style folders, this is equivalent to **path:**. For
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maildir, this includes messages in the "new" and "cur"
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subdirectories. The exact syntax for maildir folders depends on your
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mail configuration. For maildir++, **folder:""** matches the inbox
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folder (which is the root in maildir++), other folder names always
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start with ".", and nested folders are separated by "."s, such as
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**folder:.classes.topology**. For "file system" maildir, the inbox is
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typically **folder:INBOX** and nested folders are separated by
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slashes, such as **folder:classes/topology**.
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Both **path:** and **folder:** will find a message if *any* copy of
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that message is in the specific directory/folder.
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The **date:** prefix can be used to restrict the results to only
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messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: header) with
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a range syntax of:
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date:<since>..<until>
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See **DATE AND TIME SEARCH** below for details on the range expression,
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and supported syntax for <since> and <until> date and time expressions.
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The time range can also be specified using timestamps with a syntax of:
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<initial-timestamp>..<final-timestamp>
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Each timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since
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1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
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In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with
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Boolean operators ( **and**, **or**, **not** , etc.). Each term in the
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query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no explicit
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operator is provided, (except that terms with a common prefix will be
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implicitly combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 fixed).
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Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
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operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
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shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
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expression).
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DATE AND TIME SEARCH
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notmuch understands a variety of standard and natural ways of expressing
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dates and times, both in absolute terms ("2012-10-24") and in relative
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terms ("yesterday"). Any number of relative terms can be combined ("1
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hour 25 minutes") and an absolute date/time can be combined with
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relative terms to further adjust it. A non-exhaustive description of the
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syntax supported for absolute and relative terms is given below.
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The range expression
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date:<since>..<until>
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The above expression restricts the results to only messages from <since>
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to <until>, based on the Date: header.
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<since> and <until> can describe imprecise times, such as "yesterday".
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In this case, <since> is taken as the earliest time it could describe
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(the beginning of yesterday) and <until> is taken as the latest time it
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could describe (the end of yesterday). Similarly, date:january..february
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matches from the beginning of January to the end of February.
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Currently, we do not support spaces in range expressions. You can
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replace the spaces with '\_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in some cases)
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leave the spaces out altogether. Examples in this man page use spaces
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for clarity.
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Open-ended ranges are supported (since Xapian 1.2.1), i.e. it's possible
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to specify date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not limit the start or
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end time, respectively. Pre-1.2.1 Xapian does not report an error on
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open ended ranges, but it does not work as expected either.
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Entering date:expr without ".." (for example date:yesterday) won't work,
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as it's not interpreted as a range expression at all. You can achieve
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the expected result by duplicating the expr both sides of ".." (for
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example date:yesterday..yesterday).
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Relative date and time
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[N\|number]
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(years\|months\|weeks\|days\|hours\|hrs\|minutes\|mins\|seconds\|secs)
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[...]
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All refer to past, can be repeated and will be accumulated.
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Units can be abbreviated to any length, with the otherwise ambiguous
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single m being m for minutes and M for months.
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Number can also be written out one, two, ..., ten, dozen, hundred.
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Additionally, the unit may be preceded by "last" or "this" (e.g., "last
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week" or "this month").
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When combined with absolute date and time, the relative date and time
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specification will be relative from the specified absolute date and
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time.
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Examples: 5M2d, two weeks
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Supported absolute time formats
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- H[H]:MM[:SS] [(am\|a.m.\|pm\|p.m.)]
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- H[H] (am\|a.m.\|pm\|p.m.)
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- HHMMSS
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- now
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- noon
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- midnight
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- Examples: 17:05, 5pm
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Supported absolute date formats
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- YYYY-MM[-DD]
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- DD-MM[-[YY]YY]
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- MM-YYYY
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- M[M]/D[D][/[YY]YY]
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- M[M]/YYYY
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- D[D].M[M][.[YY]YY]
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- D[D][(st\|nd\|rd\|th)] Mon[thname] [YYYY]
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- Mon[thname] D[D][(st\|nd\|rd\|th)] [YYYY]
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- Wee[kday]
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Month names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
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Weekday names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
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Examples: 2012-07-31, 31-07-2012, 7/31/2012, August 3
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Time zones
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- (+\|-)HH:MM
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- (+\|-)HH[MM]
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Some time zone codes, e.g. UTC, EET.
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SEE ALSO
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========
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**notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**,
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**notmuch-dump(1)**, **notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-insert(1)**,
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**notmuch-new(1)**, **notmuch-reply(1)**, **notmuch-restore(1)**,
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**notmuch-search(1)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)**
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