> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Jason Benguerel wrote: > >> I don't want to start any holy wars however, is there any way to disable the >> searching of data attachments. Microsoft Entourage has a stupid feature >> where it searches each message for evidence of an HTML link, courier imap >> seems to want to search the binary attachments for any non header related >> searches. I would prefer not to search binary attachments, or at least the >> option not to search them. Are there any flags/directives to change the > > There is no flag to skip non-textual MIME content for searches. After > considering this, I decided to let the search function sift through binary > attachments, looking for the search string.
I understand that you feel a match of the string within a binary attachment seems like a useful thing, however all it takes is a couple of large attachments in a Maildir to make a quick search into a half hour wait. From a performance / efficacy standpoint I would think that it would make more sense to skip the binaries. Most attachments are truly binary compressed data, why would you impose the substantial overhead of a search against this data when a match would be of dubious relevance? _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
