Kevin Foley [2020-02-01T16:29:25-05] wrote:

> I'm getting unexpected results when trying to search for messages
> associated with an email address.

> $ notmuch search to:"example@email.com"

> My understanding is this should be treated as a phrase which means
> that exact phrase will be searched for, is this correct?

Double quotes are special characters in your shell and it interprets
them so that notmuch doesn't get them. There are different ways in shell
to escape special characters:

    to:\"example@email.com\"
    'to:"example@email.com"'

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"

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