On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:29:22 -0700, Mark Anderson <MarkR.Anderson@amd.com> wrote:
> Apparently matching on email addresses doesn't work the way I hoped.
> 
> While debugging why my to:x@y.com search was matching far too many
> entries, I whittled it down to this:
> 
> WORD1=hello
> WORD2=goodbye
> MSGID=junk$(date +%s)
> TESTDIR=$(notmuch config get database.path)/.tmp/new
> TESTMAIL=$TESTDIR/$MSGID:2,
> 
> mkdir -p $TESTDIR
> 
> echo Testcase for $WORD1@$WORD2, msgid: $MSGID@junk.com
> 
> echo "From: nobody@nobody.com
> To: c@${WORD1}.com, K-R@${WORD2}.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:41:34 -0600
> Subject: Error
> Message-ID: <$MSGID@junk.com>
> 
> Not empty body.=
> 
> " > $TESTMAIL
> 
> notmuch new
> notmuch search --output=files to:$WORD1@$WORD2
> notmuch search --output=files to:\"$WORD1@$WORD2\"
> 
> Why does that match, but this doesn't?
> 
> notmuch search --output=files to:\'$WORD1@$WORD2\'

Hey, guys.  Reopening an old thread here, found while trying to track
down a similar problem.

I'm confused why any of these searches should return anything at all.
"$WORD1@$WORD2" doesn't actually match either of the addresses in the
test message, especially when quoted.  The expanded addresses should be:

  c@hello.com
  K-R@goodbye.com

Why should

  hello@goodbye

match anything?  And in fact it doesn't for me if I recreate the same
setup.  Am I missing something?

jamie.