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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jean-Francois Moulin <jean-francois.moulin@hzg.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: search misses some targets
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Jean-Francois Moulin <jean-francois.moulin@hzg.de> writes:

> Using notmuch in mutt searches on the from field often return too few
> hits. I see more mails by using the limit command of mutt.
> In order to be sure that mutt does not get in the way of my notmuch
> search I tried directly from the command line (notmuch search), same
> problem.

Hi Jean-Francois;

Can you give us some more details about the kind of search where you not
getting the results you want? Maybe the exact command line for "notmuch
search", and if poossible the headers from a message you expected to be
matched but was not.

David