Quoting the argument does not change anyting -- which makes sense, 
since searching for the id does work well when using "notmuch show 
--format=raw". So it's not a quoting issue.

BTW, the error also shows up if I just omit the option 
"format=raw" in notmuch show.

This is the ID which I am using for testing:

E5-a1wt6bgr-elaine/2/42589-dc960dd3@nlsender05.ui-portal.com

Jörg


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 11 2017, Jörg Volbers wrote: 
> 
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> I have problems searching for a message by its id. 
>> 
>> If I call notmuch-show, everything works fine; actually this is 
>> used by the emacs frontend: 
>> 
>> 'notmuch show --format=raw id:<.....>' 
>> 
>> If I try to search for this mail with notmuch-search, I get no 
>> result: 
>> 
>> notmuch search -- id:<....> 
>> 
>> Any ideas? 
> 
> put search terms inside single quotes. i.e. notmuch search -- 
> 'id:<....>' 
> 
> Tomi 
> 
>> 
>> Best, Jörg 
>> 
>> --  http://www.joergvolbers.de 
>> https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/jvolbers 

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