Possible some threads are not complete due to bug?

[David Bremner]

Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> writes:

> Sometimes I need to do:
>
> $ notmuch search --output=threads "id:MYMSGID"
> thread:000000000000a125
> $ notmuch search --output=messages "thread:000000000000a125"
>
> In theory, this should output the message that responded to message ID
> "MYMSGID". Sometimes it works. But sometimes it does not work. That
> is, there exists an email where I am sure (I checked the raw email)
> that there is a header
> In-Reply-To: <MYMSGID>
> but that email does not show when I do the two commands above.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "does not show". Do you mean that the
output from the second command is empty? or does not contain MYMSGID?

> Indeed, that mail belongs to a different thread ID.

How can you tell that the mail belongs to a different thread?
Isn't that what your first command tells you?

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