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From: "Alexey Feldgendler" <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Search using email headers does not work
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:20:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wsgqwkri1h6og4@sandwich.feldgendler.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nhfncot.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:09:22 +0100, Jameson Graef Rollins  
<jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:

>> I think I mentioned this on irc sometime ago: would indexing all the
>> headers as a separate free text entry (under headers: for example)
>> satisfy most of this. So then you could search for things like
>> headers:"List-Id: blah" or similar.
>>
>> It is not as nice as individually indexed headers, but it does mean that
>> all notmuch instances would be the same and the same commands would
>> work, the library interface would be consistent etc.

> I like this idea.  Simple to implement, and covers all needs
> automatically.

It will work for some headers, but not for others. Where a header's value  
is a list, there will be no precise way of specifying “the list contains  
X”. NEAR is only an approximation.


-- 
Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
[ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-11 14:52 Search using email headers does not work Michal Vyskocil
2013-02-12 11:50 ` David Bremner
2013-02-12 17:03   ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-12 17:32     ` Michal Vyskocil
2013-02-12 19:57       ` Carl Worth
2013-02-12 20:05         ` David Bremner
2013-02-13  7:55           ` Mark Walters
2013-02-13 21:09             ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2013-02-13 21:20               ` Alexey Feldgendler [this message]
2013-02-15  8:27           ` Tomi Ollila

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