Re: Multiple header sources for an index.header query prefix?

Subject: Re: Multiple header sources for an index.header query prefix?

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 07:44:15 -0300

To: Keith Amidon, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


> I started thinking about how I would add this feature and was thinking 
> it might be better to support in the configuration by using semi-colon 
> separated values like some of the other config options. For example:
>
> [index]
> header.Spam=X-Spam;X-Spam-Result
>
> Does this seem a reasonable way to go? Is this an extension of the 
> custom header indexing behavior that you would be interested in?

It sounds reasonable.

> Finally, any suggestions for approaching an implementation? In 
> particular, I believe there were some recent changes to also store the 
> configuration in the database. Any thoughts on how this suggestion would 
> interact with that?

An implementation would need to update
_notmuch_message_index_user_headers to iterate (using
notmuch_config_get_values_string) over the desired headers. Basically
the call to `_notmuch_message_gen_terms` needs to be repeated once for
each header, using the same value for `prefix_name`.

And of course the tests and notmuch-search-terms(7) would need to be
updated.

d

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