search misses some targets

[Jean-Francois Moulin]

Hi!

Sorry for not providing enough info to start with.

I have pasted a header below (slightly modified for privacy).
I wanted to find all mails coming from the sender of this one.
I used "search from:Doe" and search "from:doe" and got only 3/4 of the expected hits (I
checked with Thunderbird). I then tried "search Doe" and "search doe",
this message was not found either. Using mutt when I applied a "limit Doe" or "limit doe",
the message was found.

Thanks for having a look!



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.On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:46:07PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Jean-Francois Moulin <jean-francois.moulin at hzg.de> writes:
> 
> > Using notmuch in mutt searches on the from field often return too few
> > hits. I see more mails by using the limit command of mutt.
> > In order to be sure that mutt does not get in the way of my notmuch
> > search I tried directly from the command line (notmuch search), same
> > problem.
> 
> Hi Jean-Francois;
> 
> Can you give us some more details about the kind of search where you not
> getting the results you want? Maybe the exact command line for "notmuch
> search", and if poossible the headers from a message you expected to be
> matched but was not.
> 
> David
> 
> 

-- 
Dr. Jean-François Moulin
German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS)
at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht GmbH
Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany
phone: +49-89-289-10762
email: jean-francois.moulin at hzg.de

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:46:07PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Jean-Francois Moulin <jean-francois.moulin at hzg.de> writes:
> 
> > Using notmuch in mutt searches on the from field often return too few
> > hits. I see more mails by using the limit command of mutt.
> > In order to be sure that mutt does not get in the way of my notmuch
> > search I tried directly from the command line (notmuch search), same
> > problem.
> 
> Hi Jean-Francois;
> 
> Can you give us some more details about the kind of search where you not
> getting the results you want? Maybe the exact command line for "notmuch
> search", and if poossible the headers from a message you expected to be
> matched but was not.
> 
> David
> 
> 

-- 
Dr. Jean-François Moulin
German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS)
at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht GmbH
Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany
phone: +49-89-289-10762
email: jean-francois.moulin at hzg.de

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