Spaces need to be stripped when querying the Message-Id,
because notmuch stores them in Xapian with spaces stripped.

All double-quote characters need to be doubled to escape them,
otherwise they will be added as extra query terms outside the id.
---
 contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
index d1e2c084..1bb95ba6 100755
--- a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
+++ b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
@@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ sub thread_action($$@) {
 	empty_maildir($results_dir);
 	die "notmuch-mutt: cannot find Message-Id, abort.\n";
     }
-    my $search_cmd = 'notmuch search --output=threads ' . shell_quote("id:$mid");
+
+    $mid =~ s/ //g; # notmuch strips spaces before storing Message-Id
+    $mid =~ s/"/""/g; # escape all double quote characters
+
+    my $search_cmd = 'notmuch search --output=threads ' . shell_quote(qq{id:"$mid"});
     my $tid = `$search_cmd`;	# get thread id
     chomp($tid);
 
@@ -135,7 +139,10 @@ sub tag_action(@) {
     my $mid = get_message_id();
     defined $mid or die "notmuch-mutt: cannot find Message-Id, abort.\n";
 
-    system("notmuch", "tag", @_, "--", "id:$mid");
+    $mid =~ s/ //g; # notmuch strips spaces before storing Message-Id
+    $mid =~ s/"/""/g; # escape all double quote characters
+
+    system("notmuch", "tag", @_, "--", qq{id:"$mid"});
 }
 
 sub die_usage() {
-- 
2.39.2

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