Re: notmuch: boolean operators and path search

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Tomas,
* Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> [2017-10-31; 20:07]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>> can anyone please enlighten me, why the search term "is:spam AND
>> NOT path:Mail/spam-old/**" shows emails which are tagged spam and
>> are in spam-old?:
>
> Did you try if only `path:Mail/spam-old/**` is producing any result? If
> `Mail` is you top maildir directory, then I think it is not correct. You
> should say `path:spam-old/**`.

Thanks, you are spot on: I rearranged my paths and
path:Mail/spam-old/** was right before this rearrangement.

I'm feeling relieved now.  Thanks again, Gregor