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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Antoine =?utf-8?Q?Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@orangeseeds.org>,
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Subject: Re: [aperezdc/notmuch-addrlookup-c] Possibility to upstream (#23)
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anarcat <notifications@github.com> writes:


> One improvement we could *already* do with notmuch-address would be to enforce searching for to/from headers, which doesn't seem to be the case right now. I have a [wrapper script](https://gitlab.com/anarcat/scripts/-/blob/master/notmuch-address) where I do basically this:
>
>     exec notmuch address from:"$*"
>
> I would love to be able to do `to:"$*"` here, but that gives the unexpected result of the `From` addresses instead of `To` in that search... And `--output=recipients` does not fix that at all...
>

If you have a way to reproduce this (e.g. that works with the notmuch
test corpus, or at least doesn't depend on your mail), please let us
know. I can't really understand the problem from the description here,
so it's not likely to get fixed.

PS this is not sent via github, as it's not about notmuch-addrlookup