From: "Nicolás Reynolds" <fauno@kiwwwi.com.ar>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: How to index arbitrary headers?
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:51:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vceqh02v.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001154309.GE26662@mit.edu>
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Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Quoth Petri Savolainen on Oct 01 at 3:39 pm:
>> Hello,
>> I could not find information anywhere in notmuch docs about what is
>> actually indexed - specifically, what email headers are indexed and
>> searchable? If a header is not indexed, does searching for its value still
>> result in a search hit?
>> It would be nice if one could just provide the list of headers to be
>> indexed in some configuration file or something.
>> Thanks,
>> Petri
>
> notmuch doesn't currently implement this, though it is an
> oft-requested feature. One (not insurmountable) difficulty is that
> the database would have to be rebuilt if a user-configured list of
> headers changed and there are technical limitations that prevent us
> from simply indexing all headers. Out of curiosity, what headers are
> you interested in indexing?
>
> The currently indexed headers are described in man
> notmuch-search-terms.
maybe related: is it possible to index only the headers and not the mail
body?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-04 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 12:39 How to index arbitrary headers? Petri Savolainen
2012-10-01 15:43 ` Austin Clements
2012-10-03 18:32 ` Petri Savolainen
2012-10-04 8:17 ` Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2012-10-04 12:51 ` Nicolás Reynolds [this message]
2012-10-04 16:25 ` Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2012-10-04 18:18 ` Nicolás Reynolds
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