From: Petri Savolainen <petri@koodaamo.fi>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: How to index arbitrary headers?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:32:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACXwgK8Any3Cd+eO21Frz2X8P1kcOkw9XDTN5jj1Nu-DQdHRUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001154309.GE26662@mit.edu>
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Hi,
thanks for your response. I am evaluating notmuch / xapian for building an
application for analyzing in various ways a fairly large number of emails
accumulated over several years. I am afraid the number of headers that
would ultimately need to be indexed is therefore quite a lot larger than
what notmuch currently indexes.
Petri
2012/10/1 Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>
> 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.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 18:32 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 [this message]
2012-10-04 8:17 ` Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2012-10-04 12:51 ` Nicolás Reynolds
2012-10-04 16:25 ` Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2012-10-04 18:18 ` Nicolás Reynolds
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