Kevin Foley <kevin@kevinjfoley.me> writes: > Hi, > > I'm getting unexpected results when trying to search for messages > associated with an email address. > > An example search is: > > $ notmuch search to:"example@email.com" See the subsection Quoting in notmuch-search-terms(7). I suspect you need to double-quote your query, as the examples in the documentation are. > > which is returning messages that seem to have nothing to do with the > address I'm looking for. > > My understanding is this should be treated as a phrase which means that > exact phrase will be searched for, is this correct? If not is there a > way to search for an exact email address in the to field? > You can also do regex searches, although they are are measurably slower. The syntax is also discussed in notmuch-search-terms(7). _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch