From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:00:18 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4fpqym5.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbau9e8i.fsf@wondoo.home.cworth.org>
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 28 2015, Xu Wang wrote:
>> I would look to look for all emails from a colleague jongho. I tried:
>>
>> from:jongho attachment:pdf
>>
>> which seems to do as I wanted.
>
> Good. That should work.
Another option is to use mimetype:pdf
man notmuch-search-terms is probably worth a look when facing these
kinds of puzzles. It contains both Carl's reply about term based search
and mine about the mimetype: prefix. Of course it is getting pretty
big, I don't know what to do about that.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-29 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-29 0:55 correct way to search for only PDF attachments Xu Wang
2015-09-29 2:00 ` Carl Worth
2015-09-29 4:51 ` Xu Wang
2015-09-29 7:15 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-29 11:00 ` David Bremner [this message]
2015-09-29 11:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-29 13:48 ` David Bremner
2015-09-30 15:16 ` Xu Wang
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