notmuch shows tag which is not on any email

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Jani, Carl,
* Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> [2018-06-04; 21:36]:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> wrote:
>> $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph
>> EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet
>> EA=telegraph at gmx.net
>>
>>
>> $ notmuch count  -- is:EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet
>> 0
[...]
> Try all of the above with --exclude=false parameter and see if it makes
> a difference. If it does, each of the messages tagged with
> EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet is probably also tagged with one of the tags
> in 'notmuch config get search.exclude_tags'.

You hit it spot on.

[...]
>> $ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph at gmx.net  -- is:/EA.*telegraph/
>
> Try that with
>
> $ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph at gmx.net -EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet -- is:/EA.*telegraph/
>
> to remedy the situation.


Thanks for your help, now the spurious tag is gone.

Ciao; Gregor
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