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.TH NOTMUCH-SEARCH-TERMS 7 2012-06-01 "Notmuch 0.13.2"
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.SH NAME
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notmuch-search-terms \- syntax for notmuch queries
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B notmuch count
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.RI [ options... ]
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.RI < search-term ">..."
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.B "notmuch dump"
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.RI "[ <" filename "> ] [--]"
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.RI "[ <" search-term ">...]"
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.B notmuch search
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.RI [ options "...] <" search-term ">..."
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.B notmuch show
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.RI "[" options "...] <" search-term ">..."
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.B notmuch tag
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.RI "+<" tag> "|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-term ">..."
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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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
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<brackets> 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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tag:<tag> (or is:<tag>)
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id:<message-id>
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thread:<thread-id>
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folder:<directory-path>
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The
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.B from:
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prefix is used to match the name or address of the sender of an email
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message.
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The
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.B to:
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prefix is used to match the names or addresses of any recipient of an
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email message, (whether To, Cc, or Bcc).
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Any term prefixed with
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.B subject:
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will match only text from the subject of an email. Searching for a
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phrase in the subject is supported by including quotation marks around
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the phrase, immediately following
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.BR subject: .
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The
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.B attachment:
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prefix can be used to search for specific filenames (or extensions) of
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attachments to email messages.
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For
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.BR tag: " and " is:
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valid tag values include
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.BR inbox " and " unread
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by default for new messages added by
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.B notmuch new
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as well as any other tag values added manually with
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.BR "notmuch tag" .
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For
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.BR id: ,
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message ID values are the literal contents of the Message\-ID: header
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of email messages, but without the '<', '>' delimiters.
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The
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.B thread:
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prefix can be used with the thread ID values that are generated
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internally by notmuch (and do not appear in email messages). These
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thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from
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.B "notmuch search"
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The
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.B folder:
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prefix can be used to search for email message files that are
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contained within particular directories within the mail store. Only
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the directory components below the top-level mail database path are
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available to be searched.
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In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be
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combined with Boolean operators (
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.BR and ", " or ", " not
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, etc.). Each term in the query will be implicitly connected by a
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logical AND if no explicit operator is provided, (except that terms
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with a common prefix will be implicitly combined with OR until we get
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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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Finally, results can be restricted to only messages within a
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particular time range, (based on the Date: header) 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. This is not the most convenient means of
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expressing date ranges, but until notmuch is fixed to accept a more
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convenient form, one can use the date program to construct
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timestamps. For example, with the bash shell the following syntax would
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specify a date range to return messages from 2009\-10\-01 until the
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current time:
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$(date +%s \-d 2009\-10\-01)..$(date +%s)
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-search\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)
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