notmuch search does not work with search term 'id:'

[Tomi Ollila]

On Fri, Aug 11 2017, Jörg Volbers wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have problems searching for a message by its id.
>
> If I call notmuch-show, everything works fine; actually this is 
> used by the emacs frontend:
>
> 'notmuch show --format=raw id:<.....>'
>
> If I try to search for this mail with notmuch-search, I get no 
> result:
>
> notmuch search -- id:<....>
>
> Any ideas?

put search terms inside single quotes. i.e. notmuch search -- 'id:<....>'

Tomi

>
> Best,
> Jörg
>
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