On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:42:09 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:34:29 -0700, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> > It's going to take a lot more digging before I can identify what is
> > common about these messages and different from all the messages that are
> > not returned.  
> 
> One guess: do those messages happen to have "folder:sent" in the
> body? If so, that might point to the possibility that the python
> bindings are using a different libnotmuch. Perhaps they have a different
> search path (and maybe there's a debian installed library around that
> they're finding?).

Oh good call, Jesse.  Bonus points for you!  That was the problem.  Damn
it.  In retrospect that's so obvious, though, isn't it!  I had purged
the notmuch binary package, but had accidentally left libnotmuch1 and
libnotmuch-dev installed.  Removing those packages and pointing to my
locally installed libraries fixed the problem.

Sorry for spamming the list with what, in retrospect, I should have been
able to figure out on my own.  Thanks again, Jesse.

jamie.