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+Subject: Re: Searching for phrases in the body of an email\r
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+Hi Lewis,\r
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+On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:48:57AM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:\r
+> \r
+> 1. Perhaps you are remembering the "no plain text" message incorrectly?\r
+> For example, the message could have referred to "text/plain" or\r
+> "plaintext" (no space). These would be sufficiently different to not\r
+> match your grep pattern.\r
+\r
+True, but my puzzlement is notmuch shouldn't return those results in the\r
+first place, since I provided a quoted string: "plain text", unless of\r
+course I need to escape the quotes. Okay, just checked it, doesn't make\r
+a difference in the number of hits from notmuch.\r
+\r
+> 2. Perhaps your email client rendered the "no plain text" message when\r
+> it encountered an email with only a "text/html" content type? In\r
+> this case, the "no plain text" (or whatever) message would not be\r
+> present in the email itself since it would be generated by the email\r
+> client when rendering the email.\r
+\r
+This is possible, but I use mutt. As far as I know, it doesn't do\r
+"smart" things like that. I also recall looking at the mime parts\r
+individually as I was surprised at the behaviour, and it was indeed a\r
+useless text/plain part with that message.\r
+\r
+> 3. A really long shot, but could a line wrap have occurred after "plain"\r
+> such that "text" appeared on the next line? Your grep pattern would\r
+> not match that.\r
+\r
+Good point, I tried grepping for this instead: 'plain[[:space:]/]+text',\r
+no luck.\r
+\r
+Thanks for your comments.\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Suvayu\r
+\r
+Open source is the future. It sets us free.\r