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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Lucas <luc.lists@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Bug: counting messages twice after excluding tags yields
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Lucas <luc.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear list members,
>
> I think I found a bug or at least undocumented behaviour in the notmuch
> library.  I would like to report this here.  Originally I found the bug
> in the python library but I attached a c program that shows the same
> behaviour.  I am running notmuch version 0.22.1 from the Arch Linux
> repositories.

I noticed that notmuch-reply.c actually uses a query in this way
(calling search after calling count on the same query). So this is a
bug, either in the query routines, or in notmuch-reply.

d