[bug] [wish] notmuch should search on date received

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Mon May 4 01:25:38 PDT 2015


Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> writes:

> Dear notmuch developers,
>
> I wished notmuch could search on (the top most) Received: -header
> since not all emails have correct Date: -headers.
>
> Rationale: Show all emails since yesterday…  This is immensely
> important for my work flow.

These are two somewhat different requests. Being able to search on the
Received headers would involve a usual kind of term search, but not date
searching.  This might be problematic as a default because of the volume
of received headers.  In order to use it for date search, it would need
to be parsed for data information and either override the Date:-header
or provide a second prefix like received-date.  Or maybe a single
message could have multiple date: prefixed terms, I'm not sure.

d



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