Hi Suvayu, Suvayu Ali wrote > Hi Ingo, > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:55:13AM -0700, ingo wrote: >> Mark Walters wrote >> > >> > The most likely cause is that these two messagefiles have the same >> > message-ids (so in notmuch's view are the same message). Try >> > >> > notmuch search --output=messages folder:1_Personal AND NOT >> tag:1_Personal >> > >> > If you only see one message-id then notmuch thinks there is a single >> > message >> > that matches the search. The way notmuch works is that it first finds >> > which messages match and then prints the requested information for >> those >> > messages. So in this case it finds the matching message(s) then prints >> > all filenames for those matching messages. >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> thank you for your answer, actually I only get one single message id, the >> one I get without using --output=files. >> >> notmuch search --output=messages folder:1_Personal AND NOT >> tag:1_Personal >> id: > f76b9be792c46795945e1486ccb2b2ab@.kikidan > > Doesn't that confirm Mark's explanation? Notmuch sees multiple files > associated to the same message (identified by the message id). Yes, you are right, don't know where I had my head when answering. And both mails have the same message-id in the message header. Still, only one of both files really should be found with this search, so why is the out put different? Kind regards, Ingo -- View this message in context: http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/notmuch-search-output-files-error-with-AND-NOT-search-terms-tp4028432p4028438.html Sent from the notmuch mailing list archive at Nabble.com.