mutt with notmuch search question

[Nickolai Dobrynin]

Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users <mutt-users at mutt.org> writes:

> I use notmuch (not very effectively) with mutt. 
>
> So, I use F8 and get a bunch of results according to what I search on. 
>
> How do I tell which folders each of these emails (in the search) came from?

I ran

man notmuch search

inside the terminal and found this:

--output=(summary|threads|messages|files|tags)

files  Output  the  filenames of all messages matching the search terms,
either one per line (--format=text), separated by null characters
(--format=text0), as a JSON array (--format=json), or as an S-Expression
list (--format=sexp).

Note that each message may have multiple filenames associated with
it. All of them are included in the output (unless limited with the
--duplicate=N  option). This may be particularly confusing for folder:
or path: searches in a specified directory, as the messages may have
duplicates in other directories that are included in the output,
although these files alone would not match the search.

E.g.,

notmuch search --output=files tag:sent

If you find a message you are interested in, you could do

notmuch search id:<message-id>

per

https://notmuchmail.org/searching/