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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>, Kevin Foley <kevin@kevinjfoley.me>,
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Subject: Re: Searching for an Exact Email Address
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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