From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] [wish] notmuch should search on date received
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References: <20150503101412.GB25636@boo.workgroup>
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Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 10:25:38 +0200
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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@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=E2=80=A6  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