From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>,
notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Notmuch search missing mail id
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:50:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2390x6uc8.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4oh44h8.fsf@hackervisions.org>
On Mon, Oct 29 2012, James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org> wrote:
> I received the attached piece of spam telling me about an exciting
> investment opportunity. Notmuch pulled it in to the database, noting
> the message id. But then it seems to stop paying attention to the
> message id.
>
> notmuch can find the mail when I search by the from field:
>
> $ notmuch search "from:caroline horn"
> thread:000000000000bcb7 Today 09:29 [1/1] Caroline Horn; This Company is on the rise (hv inbox unread)
>
> But not by the message id:
> $ notmuch search id:000801cdb5da$17673470$26448589@microsof000000t4ko3r
> $
Try
$ notmuch search id:'000801cdb5da$17673470$26448589@microsof000000t4ko3r'
so that the $....s are not expanded...
note that id:"..." does not suffice as shell expands $ & ` inside double
quotes.
Tomi
>
> Notmuch has correctly pulled the id into the database:
> $ notmuch show "from:caroline horn" | grep "id:" | sed "s/.*\(id:[^ ]*\).*/\1/"
> id:000801cdb5da$17673470$26448589@microsof000000t4ko3r
>
> If notmuch knows the id but won't match it in a search, that looks like
> a bug to me.
>
> On a related matter, I have a script that pulls the message id header
> From a mail file and then uses notmuch tag id:foo to tag that file. But
> if notmuch sometimes fails to find the id, maybe there is there a better
> way to do it?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 16:39 Notmuch search missing mail id James Vasile
2012-10-29 17:50 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2012-10-29 18:03 ` James Vasile
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