From: vasudeva@linkswarm.com (vasudeva)
Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] More gmail search goodness
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:37:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200673899-sup-1833@lenin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1198367430-sup-936@south>
Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sat Dec 22 19:45:54 -0500 2007:
> Excerpts from Marcus Williams's message of Tue Nov 27 14:34:02 -0800 2007:
> >
> > I'd like to add a has:attachment operator but the ferret index doesnt
> > appear to store enough info for this. It would be really nice to be
> > able to search for attachments (of certain types as well with
> > filename:...) I took a look at extending the index to add a new field
> > "filename" that contains a list of filenames attached to a message,
> > but this would break everyones index so I'm just requesting it as a
> > wishlist item rather than submitting a patch.
>
> You're right, it requires adding an attachment field to the index. I
> think that adding a field to the Ferret index doesn't break index
> compatibility, so this actually might not be too hard to do. You'll have
> to rebuild the index to fill in the attachment status for pre-existing
> messages, but the change wouldn't invalidate anyone's index.
Was there every any movement in this direction? Specifically, toward a
has:attachment search function?
I ask because I find myself repeatedly running out of diskspace at work
(Outlook, 100Mb PST), which is actually almost enough space, without a
particular line of business that causes customers to mail me gigantic
attachments (1.5Mb PDF containing a 20k GIF, awesome), which I then have to go
in and delete. I mucked about with ways of programmatically seeking these out
and deleting them, before it eventually dawned on me that attachment references
aren't stored in the index.
(Business like 'is:larger-than=1000k' would be nifty.)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 22:34 Marcus Williams
2007-12-23 0:45 ` William Morgan
2008-01-18 16:37 ` vasudeva [this message]
2008-01-18 17:18 ` Marcus Williams
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