On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +output=$(notmuch search from:'search-by-from@' | notmuch_search_sanitize)
>
> I don't think this does what you think it does.  Xapian only
> understands double quotes around phrases, not single quotes.
> Furthermore, a single quote after a prefix prevents that token from
> acting as a prefix, so you search is finding messages containing the
> *word* "from" and the phrase "search by from" *anywhere* (which is a
> phrase not because of the quotes, but because of the hyphens).
>
> The test results happen to be the same if you use single quotes or
> double quotes, but for very different reasons.

Ok, how about:
search from:search-by-from@

Would that be better?

-- 
Felipe Contreras