From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:00:18 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments
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Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>,
+ notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: correct way to search for only PDF attachments
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
+
+> On Mon, Sep 28 2015, Xu Wang wrote:
+>> I would look to look for all emails from a colleague jongho. I tried:
+>>
+>> from:jongho attachment:pdf
+>>
+>> which seems to do as I wanted.
+>
+> Good. That should work.
+
+Another option is to use mimetype:pdf
+
+man notmuch-search-terms is probably worth a look when facing these
+kinds of puzzles. It contains both Carl's reply about term based search
+and mine about the mimetype: prefix.  Of course it is getting pretty
+big, I don't know what to do about that.
+
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