From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Olaf TNSB <still.another.person@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Add (extracted) attachment text to the search index?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 07:34:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inntut68.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABDMPboL-XY3f=opg0rw8i52Zgo=Qfh5da38SehdF19J-S9s-w@mail.gmail.com>
Olaf TNSB <still.another.person@gmail.com> writes:
> HI,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to add the text extracted from an
> attachment to the search index?
>
> For the moment let's leave aside the important issues like - security,
> buffer overflows, clients having to install
> doc2text/pandoc/pdftotext/whatever...
>
>
> I *think* I'm trying to ask - How can I take a lump of text (e.g. from an
> attachment) and associate it with a message ID so I can then search for it?
>
> Is this a notmuch command, or a Xapien command?
This would require some modifications of notmuch. Either modifying
lib/index.cc to add the terms at indexing (notmuch new/insert) time, or
providing some way of adding the terms later. The former actually sounds
simpler to me.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-01 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-01 2:58 Add (extracted) attachment text to the search index? Olaf TNSB
2017-03-01 11:34 ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-03-01 17:55 ` Steven Allen
2017-03-01 22:45 ` Olaf TNSB
2017-03-02 0:41 ` David Bremner
2017-03-02 0:55 ` Olaf TNSB
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