Sorting and attachments

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:53:49 -0700, mueen at nawaz.org wrote:
> 1. Can notmuch return results sorted by size?

As far as I know, there is currently no way to do that (but see below).

> 2. Can I tell notmuch to limit the items it returns (e.g. show me
> first ten messages matching ... )

Are you looking for this in the emacs UI?  The following works for me on
the command line:

notmuch search '*' | head -10

> 3. Any plans for searching via attachment size or type? Say I want all
> emails with attachments bigger than 1 MB.

You can currently search through attachments with the 'attachment:'
search term.  See "notmuch help search-terms" for more info.  This works
for searching for mime types.  I don't know of a way to search by size,
though.

> Essentially, I have a tendency to prune off large attachments so that
> my mail directory doesn't blow up...

You might just try using find, which is very useful for this kind of
thing:

find $MAILDIR -printf '%b %p\n' | sort -n

hth.

jamie.
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