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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>,
	Kevin Foley <kevin@kevinjfoley.me>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Searching for an Exact Email Address
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 08:17:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a761kwtg.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnexbjq5.fsf@iki.fi>

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> The shell built-in "set" is useful for testing parameters:
>
>     $ set -- to:"example@email.com" to:\"example@email.com\"
>     $ printf '%s\n' "$@"
>     to:example@email.com
>     to:"example@email.com"


Also useful is setting NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY in the environment. This will
show the parsed Xapian query. In my case this shows both
'to:"example@email.com"' and to:"example@email.com" end up parsed the
same way, so I guess the problem is elsewhere.  Maybe you can try it
with your actual query.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-02 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-01 21:29 Searching for an Exact Email Address Kevin Foley
2020-02-02  0:38 ` David Bremner
2020-02-02  6:12 ` Teemu Likonen
2020-02-02 12:17   ` David Bremner [this message]
2020-02-02 15:05     ` Kevin Foley
2020-02-02 17:00       ` David Bremner

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