problem with folder: search in python bindings

[Jesse Rosenthal]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:34:29 -0700, Jameson Rollins <jrollins at 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?).