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+Subject: Re: Search using email headers does not work\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:\r
+>\r
+> It's embarrassing to me that I added this note to the notmuch TODO file\r
+> in October 2009 (and it's still there):\r
+>\r
+> Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed.\r
+\r
+One techicality is that we would presumeably want to support this both\r
+for access via the CLI and via libnotmuch (e.g. for the python\r
+bindings). So there is the question of where to store the list of\r
+indexed headers; perhaps in Xapian metadata. Or is there some simpler\r
+solution?\r
+\r
+d\r