Doh! I just realized that everything in my Junk folder is tagged "junk"
which is one of my configured search.exclude_tags. Nevermind, all is
well.

Thank you to all the kind folks who continue to maintain notmuch!

-charles

Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've been having trouble getting the folder: search-term to work
> correctly. I can successfully do a query of the count for INBOX, but
> nothing else. Here are some examples from running notmuch on the command
> line.
>
> $ pwd
> /Users/cceleri/Maildir
>
> $ ls
> Archive           INBOX             NotJunk           Trash
> Drafts            Junk              Sent Messages
>
> $ notmuch count folder:INBOX
> 19517
>
> $ notmuch count folder:Junk
> 0
>
> Am I using the folder: search-term incorrectly?
>
> Best,
> Charles