In some cases get_toplevel_messages() and _message_get_replies() does not return all messages

[Gaute Hope]

David Bremner writes on July 10, 2018 19:21:
> Gaute Hope <eg at gaute.vetsj.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> a while back I got a bug report for astroid about 
>> get_toplevel_messages() and _message_get_replies() not showing all 
>> messages [0]. When relying on these alone the user will occasionally 
>> miss emails.
>>
>> I do not have much more information, but I'll post this here in case 
>> someone else experiences this -- or it might already be fixed?
>>
> 
> Not sure it it's the same bug, but there was a bug related to reference
> loops that would have lost some top level messages. This bug was fixed
> in notmuch 0.26.2, so if the user hasn't tried with that or 0.27, they
> probably should.

Thanks, I'll see if I can get a reply (as you probably noticed the issue 
is from 2016). I can probably change the code to throw an error on 
mismatching message count rather than looping through the messages.

- gaute