Oh, wait… It's not working on my office machine either. I’ll start tracing things and see what happens.

By the way,

(notmuch-config-get "search.exclude_tags”)

returns

"spam
trash"

which is what it should be returning.

> On Apr 16, 2024, at 12:00 PM, Richard H. Stanton <rhstanton@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, David.
> 
> It all seems to be working fine on my work machine! 
> 
> I can’t decide if that’s good or bad news… I suspect it’ll take me longer to track down what’s going on than if the behavior were consistent on my two machines.
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2024, at 7:23 AM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Richard Stanton <rhstanton@berkeley.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> I have spam and trash defined as excluded tags for notmuch searches and when I run (at the command line) the command
>>> 
>>> notmuch search tag:unread
>>> 
>>> I get a list of unread messages that does *not* include unread spam or trash emails. But when I put the following into my *scratch* buffer and execute it:
>>> 
>>> (notmuch-search “tag:unread”)
>>> 
>>> I now get ALL unread messages, including those tagged as spam or trash. Am I missing something?
>> 
>> Hi Richard;
>> 
>> As for as I know it _should_ work (modulo the curly quotes being invalid
>> syntax). I don't have any real hypothesis for what is going wrong, but a
>> few ideas for gather data.
>> 
>> 1) As a start, maybe try evaluating
>> 
>>       (notmuch-config-get "search.exclude_tags")
>> 
>> in emacs and make sure it matches the corresponding
>> 
>>  notmuch config get search.exclude_tags
>> 
>> 2) If possible, run notmuch with a minimal configuration (i.e. just loading
>> notmuch, no personal configuration or other packages). There is a script
>> ./devel/try-emacs-mua in the source if you have a self-built notmuch.
> 

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