how to search for something containing `/`?

[ldegen]

Hi again,

As far as I understand, filenames cannot contain a forward slash. But how would I search for something like 'folder:posteo/INBOX'?

Example:

$ LC_ALL=C mkdir 'tag:inbox AND folder:posteo/INBOX'
mkdir: cannot create directory 'tag:inbox AND folder:posteo/INBOX': No such file or directory

Is there some other way to encode this?

[tsto]

No there is not, slashes being illegal in directory names. Notmuchfs would have to grow the ability to replace that with some special character sequence, which would be brittle.

Instead, I suggest you add a specific tag to keep in sync with the 'folder' search term, then tell notmuchfs to search for that tag.