From: Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@suse.cz>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Search using email headers does not work
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:32:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212173216.GL7346@zelvantb.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gmdo46y.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:03:01AM -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12 2013, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> > Unfortunately currently headers other than those references in the
> > notmuch-search-terms man page are not indexed. The only workaround I
> > can think of without patching notmuch is to use some tool to tag the
> > messages you care about.
>
> I think even more importantly headers other than those that are parsed
> are actually thrown to /dev/null. They are not even indexed as plain
> text, so you can search for terms in headers as you can for words in the
> body.
>
> I asked this on irc but it got lost in the shuffle: would it make sense
> to index the entire header block as plain text? If we did that then at
> least the search that Michal was trying would return the expected
> results. It would also be a fairly simple change to the indexer. I
> don't have a good sense of how much it would pollute the index, though.
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Hi,
I like such idea - but how hard would be to add a config options to
extend a list of default headers used for indexing? I am not sure there
is a strong need to index every bit from headers, just add few tips to
the default list.
Regards
Michal Vyskocil
>
> Given how frequently people are asking for alternate header indexing, it
> might be something to consider.
>
> jamie.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-11 14:52 Search using email headers does not work Michal Vyskocil
2013-02-12 11:50 ` David Bremner
2013-02-12 17:03 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-12 17:32 ` Michal Vyskocil [this message]
2013-02-12 19:57 ` Carl Worth
2013-02-12 20:05 ` David Bremner
2013-02-13 7:55 ` Mark Walters
2013-02-13 21:09 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-13 21:20 ` Alexey Feldgendler
2013-02-15 8:27 ` Tomi Ollila
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