Re: Unable to search for emails with content with a given MIME type

Subject: Re: Unable to search for emails with content with a given MIME type

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:01:31 -0600

To: Petter Reinholdtsen, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Todd

Petter,

The feature you wanted was committed a few days ago (searching with a
"mimetype:" prefix).  Searching for "mimetype:calendar" would get any
"text/calendar" or "ics/calendar" attachments.

(Replying to the list so it will appear in the list archive as well.)

Thanks,
Todd


Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> Not quite sure where to send a feature request, so I try to follow the
> instructions for bug reporst.
>
> I would like to be able to search for emails with content with a given
> MIME type.  The latest use case I ran into was my need to locate Notes
> and Exchange emails with text/calendar attachments, but I've also needed
> to find application/pdf and application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
> emails.
>
> Please consider extending notmuch to be able to search for specific mime
> types, for example using attachment:text/calendar or mime:text/calendar
> or something like that.  Or perhaps just index up the mime content type
> value, to allow me to search for "tag:attachment and text/calendar".
>
> PS: Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed to the list.
> -- 
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
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