Re: Problems getting right results

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

> > > With 'beagle-query smith', 6 results. With 'beagle-query
> > > mailfrom:smith' around 20, which sounds about right. With 'beagle-query
> > > lentz ext:pdf' I get around 25/30 files, which also sounds about right.
> >
> > Ok, so it looks like there are two different problems here:
> >
> > (1) "beagle-query mailfrom:smith" returns more results than
> > "beagle-query mailfrom:smith"
>
> I'm assuming you have a typo here. I get more results from 'beagle-query
> mailfrom:smith' than from 'beagle-query smith'
>
> > (2) "beagle-query lentz ext:pdf" returns more results than "beagle-query
> > lentz" ?  (Please clarify for this one)
>
> This is right. 'beagle-query smith ext:pdf' gives more results than  (or
> lentz, they're both authors I have PDF documents and emails from).
>
> > For (1) it's possible that we're just not searching the "From" field by
> > default on searches.  Is your email stored in Evolution, Thunderbird, or
> > KMail?

I think there is some other bug going around here. There are several flags in 
the source which can be turned on to debug this, but it might be a bit 
involved. Can you email me your ~.beagle/Indexes/EvolutionMailIndex directory 
(tarball or zip it) ?

Thanks,
- dBera

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