Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>,\r
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+Subject: Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:\r
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+> On Mon, Sep 28 2015, Xu Wang wrote:\r
+>> I would look to look for all emails from a colleague jongho. I tried:\r
+>>\r
+>> from:jongho attachment:pdf\r
+>>\r
+>> which seems to do as I wanted.\r
+>\r
+> Good. That should work.\r
+\r
+Another option is to use mimetype:pdf\r
+\r
+man notmuch-search-terms is probably worth a look when facing these\r
+kinds of puzzles. It contains both Carl's reply about term based search\r
+and mine about the mimetype: prefix.  Of course it is getting pretty\r
+big, I don't know what to do about that.\r
+\r
+d\r