Search only within email

[niklaas]

First, great program! I love it. Second, could it be that only the email addresses are searched when I am querying the program through mutt? This is a bit enoying when people are using nicknames and I can't remember them -- and actually an address book should turn in and tell me the right email address. :-)

[henrycatalinismith]

Sounds doable! Let me quickly check I've understood your request.

Current Behaviour

A search for example returns results if either the contact's email or their name matches.

$ ppl mutt example
test@example.org    John Doe
other@another.com  example user

Desired Behaviour

The same search only returns results when the email address matches.

$ ppl mutt --emails-only example
test@example.org    John Doe

This is definitely a tweak I can make for you. For the sake of backwards compatibility, I'll add it under a --emails-only flag on the ppl mutt command though. Don't wanna break things for people! :)

[niklaas]

Thank your for your quick reply. Sorry, I think I was mixing something up because the search is case-sensitive and I did not know that. So I guess this turns into two ›issues‹:

1. The .vcffile name is not searched. (which is the original issue)
2. Why is the search case-sensitive?

A contact's name and its email is searched but not the name of the .vcf file. Sometimes I am using this for a nickname for example mum.vcf or dad.vcf. So it would be great if the search also considers file names. (Of course, I can also change my behaviour in naming the files.)

Have a look at this example for clarification:

# niklaas at len-x61s in ~ [16:31:55]
$ ppl ls | grep username
username:              FirstName Surname            <firstmailpart@domainpart.com>

If I query for username I get no results. (Maybe this is intended but I would find it handy.)

If I query for surname I get no results. I think this is not really useful.

If I query for Surname I get a result (of course).

[the-reverend]

you can get a case insensitive search with ppl grep -i username

[henrycatalinismith]

Wow oops, I've really let some old issues rot here. Gonna close this one as it looks like that workaround is okay!