How does notmuch detect the presence of attachments?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 08/30/2011 06:03 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> And we need something like:
> 
> jpg2thousandwords

heh.

Yes, i suspect there will be some mime types we will be unable to index
in detail with xapian in the foreseeable future.  Even without that,
though, there's the possibility to store textual comments in a jpeg; a
user of notmuch could choose to feed those comments to the xapian indexer.

For example:

0 dkg at pip:~/src/fence$ exiv2 -p c in-play.jpg
a 2-player game of FENCE!
0 dkg at pip:~/src/fence$

I don't know if this would be useful in the real world, though, since
most people probably don't put comment data in their jpegs.  You can
easily stuff a thousand words into a jpeg though:

 exiv2 modify -c "$(head -n 1000 < /usr/share/dict/words)" test.jpg

proverbially yours,

	--dkg

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