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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: non-threaded view
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Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de> writes:

> i tried the notmuch-search(1) option "--output=messages", but it kind
> of didn't work, it only displayed a very very small subset of my
> thousands of emails, and the option "--output=threads" or
> "--output=summary" (neither of which i want, i just did this to try it
> out) had the same problem with only showing very very few results.  am
> i not understanding this option?

Is there some notmuch command that does find all of your mail?
It sounds like notmuch is not indexing most of your messages. Does
"notmuch count '*'" match the output of
"notmuch search --output=messages | wc -l"

d