On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Steven Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > David Bremner <[email protected]> writes: > > This would require some modifications of notmuch. Either modifying > > lib/index.cc to add the terms at indexing (notmuch new/insert) time, or > > providing some way of adding the terms later. The former actually sounds > > simpler to me. > > To do this correctly, you'd want to be able to run an external text > extraction tool (for PDFs, word documents, etc.) so I think the latter > would be better in the long run (it would allow the user to index > attachments in the hooks).
(As a non-dev...) I agree. The ability to add (and delete!) content post-insert sounds more desirable. I don't want to have to re-index all my email as the next version of <horrible-binary-object>-to-text gets released. I'd like to be able to (search-for-attachment)-(delete)-(re-add). I was thinking a really hacky solution would be fake up a new email with the same headers but body being the attachment text, doing a notmuch new/insert and then replacing the file on disk of the new email with a link to the original message (not sure if that will trigger notmuch new, I don't think so). Doesn't feel robust, but... What do ya reckon?
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