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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:14:56 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
>  > I'm puzzled why you chose to pass a filename as the argument to 'cat'
>  > rather than a message id (id:foo@bar.com)?
> 
> The reason is that I want be able to distinguish between several
> messages with the same id.

It strikes me that notmuch is not well suited to this in general. For
example, how would you find the filenames for the two messages with the
same message id?

dme.
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