Re: trying to understand queries

Hi Steph,

On Jul 02, 2004, at 19:47, Steph Smith wrote:

> Now that I've got things up and running smoothly, I've started feeling
> my way around actually *using* Zoe. Some things are fairly intuitive
> (like the context based search), however others are not.

Oh, well... :o)

> For instance, I am trying to figure out how to pull up all of the
> messages pertaining to a specific mailing list. The mailing list itself
> was registered as a list, and when it appears under the list sidebar, I
> note that clicking on it returns all of the list messages for the
> current day. I can change the date in the URL to retrieve list messages
> from a different day. However, I have been unable to figure out how to
> return all of the messages for a given month, a given year, or all
> messages in the archive.

There is no way to display *all* the messages at once. The display is 
always segmented one way or another. As far as search goes, simply 
enter the query string you are after.

>
> I've been reading
>
> 	http://zoe.omara.ca/index.php?page=Searching
>
> Which directed me to a primer on Lucene search. It also lists available
> keys. Do these keys translate into Lucene fields? I expected to be able
> to seach like so
>
> 	list:"List Name"
>
> but this returns nothing.

The application doesn't give you access to all the message attributes. 
You best bet is to keep you query as simple as possible and not try to 
get to fancy. The app will usually "Do The Right Thing" (SM).

> I can do a general search for the list name, but of course this is
> sloppy, and returns more than I want.

What about simply using the keywords you are after?

> I also took a look at the links to provided to relevant threads in the
> gmane archives. Unfortunately, the responses there focus entirely on
> what *doesn't* work for restricted searches, not what *does* work.

The simplest thing to do is to use the "contextual" search: select a 
context (e.g. a date, a name, etc) and perform your search there by 
using the little down arrow. This will automatically restrict your 
search.

> If somebody could post an example of how to use any of the available
> keys in a search (it doesn't even have to be 'list'), that would be
> great! The list of available keys looks fairly thorough, so if I can
> just figure out how to exploit them I'll be well on my way :)

As far as "complex" query goes, you can only access the "string" 
attributes of 'SZEnvelope' (e.g 'subject'). But even then, I'm not 
quiet sure how this will help you. Your best bet is to simply query for 
the relevant keywords. This is the most effective way to search for 
something without having to worry where such keyword appear in a 
message. The app already does multi field query for you.

> Also, I have a mail list archive which has some wacked headers. Some
> messages are still being appropriately tagged as being ML mail in Zoe,
> but some aren't. I understand the
> alt.dev.szmail.SZMail$ListFilter?.properties filter will fix this for
> new messages to be processed. Is there any easy why to fix messages
> which have already been imported into Zoe? Or would I need to delete 
> and
> re-import all of those messages?

The filter is only applied when you receive new messages. To apply it 
to previous messages, run a rebuild. from the command line:

java -jar Zoe.jar rebuild

This will recreate the entire data store and re-apply any new filters 
to your messages.

Cheers,

R.



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