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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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  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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