On Aug 18, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I'm thinking about adding at least one new SEARCH command extension to > Dovecot: ability to search from any headers in the mail, including MIME > headers in the body. So the idea is that you could somewhat quickly ask e.g. > "show me all mails with pdf attachments": > > a search or x-anyheader application/pdf x-anyheader .pdf > b fetch $ bodystructure > > The client can verify the results with the fetch. The "x-anyheader" can > already be implemented without changes to full text search plugin, because > all backends store message/MIME headers and body text separately. > > So, questions for the list, especially client developers: > > 1) What's a better name for x-anyheader? :) > > 2) Any other ideas about search extensions you'd want to see? Maybe I could > get this standardized at some point. > > I think one other thing missing has been "show me messages that have > attachments". I've thought about maybe creating a $hasattachments keyword for > that, which the server could automatically set for new mails that it thinks > has attachments (and clients can set/unset the keyword if wanted).
At work we've flipped to Google mail (I run Dovecot at home). 99.9% of the time I just cry. Once feature of their search capability that sometimes is nice is the ability to not only see if it has an attachment (has:attachment) but the ability to search for the attachments by a specific name (filename:<text>). That can be, and has proven, useful. I suspect this could turn into a nightmare, however. Ditto something like "has N attachments" (sometime I dearly wish I had at times -- I want to find that damn message with like 10 attachments). Or math around number of attachments. My $0.02. Sean
