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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi there,

Hello

> 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/**`.