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Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:


> What happens if a message id (for example) contains a ':'? Is a query of
> the form 
>
> id:stuff"encoded_stuff" 
>
> acceptable? (As far as I can see from the man page ':' does not need to
> be in hex.)

The updated version of the notmuch-dump man page does say that : will be
hex encoded, so I think the fix here is to update the notmuch tag man
page.