[Mutt] Search program that can find an E-Mail with an exact Date: match

Chuck Martin unicorn+mutt at sdf.org
Thu Dec 2 12:38:30 UTC 2021


On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 02:37:52PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
> >    Single expression
> >        date:<expr> works as a shorthand for date:<expr>..<expr>.
> >        For example, date:monday matches from the beginning of
> >        Monday until the end of Monday.
> >
> But the 'Single expression' means (as it says) 'from the beginning of
> <day> until the end of that <day>'.
>
> I want to match something like '29 Jan 2010 11:34:13'.

I don't use notmuch, but my reading of this is that the single expression
in the example matches anything from the beginning of the day to the end
of the day only because the day was specified without a time.  If <expr>
is '29 Jan 2010 11:34:13', then only that exact time would be matched.

Chuck


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