That was helpful! The output is:

Query(((Tmail AND 0 * 
QE5-a1wt6bgr-elaine/2/42589-dc960dd3@nlsender05.ui-portal.com) 
AND_NOT (Kdeleted OR Kspam)))

Actually my config has "search.exclude_tags=deleted;spam" set, and 
the mail IS a spam mail. (I wanted to train bogofilter).

Did not know that such an exclusion occurs. Makes sense, though.

Adding --exclude=false to the search makes it behave well.

Thanks for the help!



David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Jörg Volbers <joerg@joergvolbers.de> writes: 
>  
>> This is the ID which I am using for testing: 
>> 
>> E5-a1wt6bgr-elaine/2/42589-dc960dd3@nlsender05.ui-portal.com 
>> 
> Can you try 
> 
> NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY=y notmuch search 
> id:E5-a1wt6bgr-elaine/2/42589-dc960dd3@nlsender05.ui-portal.com 
> 
> and report the output after "Final query is:" 
> 
> d 

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