Search for message ID broken?

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Thu Feb 27 02:48:28 PST 2014


On Thu, Feb 27 2014, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using gnus and notmuch, and am trying to view the thread of the
> message I am viewing in gnus in notmuch.
>
> With help, I now have the following function:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun rmk/do-gnus-notmuch-stuff ()
>   (interactive)
>   (unless (buffer-live-p gnus-summary-buffer)
>     (user-error "No open Gnus summary buffer!"))
>   (let ((message-id (with-current-buffer gnus-summary-buffer
> 		      (mail-header-id (gnus-summary-article-header)))))
>     (message message-id)
>     (notmuch-search (concatenate 'string "id:" message-id)) ;; Now do the notmuch stuff
>     ))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> which nicely extracts the message ID and calls notmuch-search, but I
> don't get any results. The buffer is called notmuch-search-id:<THE_MESSAGE-ID>
>
> I tried to call notmuch-search interactively, using id:<THE_MESSAGE-ID>
> but also no results.
>
> I now tried the search from the comandline:
>
> ,----
> | Rainers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ rainerkrug$ notmuch search id:<e89a8f923ce652c84304f2f03b05 at google.com>
> | -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> | Rainers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ rainerkrug$ notmuch search id:"<e89a8f923ce652c84304f2f03b05 at google.com>"
> | Rainers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ rainerkrug$ 
> `----
>
> If I search for the subject, it works, but not with the message ID.
>
> Is there something broken?

Strip '<' and '>' from your command...

Tomi


>
> I am using 
>
> - GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0
> AppKit 1265) of 2014-02-13 on Rainers-MacBook-Pro-2.local installed via
> homebrew emacs-mac
> - notmuch binary installed via homebrew q
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
> -- 
> Rainer M. Krug
>
> email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
>
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