From 2f2529563002324337d8d3be1e5335d8a1ca7b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Austin Clements Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:48:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] man: Update raw format documentation --- man/man1/notmuch-show.1 | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 index 7bf1d569..1215f919 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 @@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html .TP 4 .BR raw " (default for a single part, see \-\-part)" -For a message, the original, raw content of the email message is -output. Consumers of this format should expect to implement MIME -decoding and similar functions. +For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw content +of the email message is output. Consumers of this format should expect +to implement MIME decoding and similar functions. For a single part (\-\-part) the raw part content is output after -performing any necessary MIME decoding. +performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that messages with a +simple body still have two parts: part 0 is the whole message and part +1 is the body. + +For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including all child +parts) is output. The raw format must only be used with search terms matching single message. -- 2.26.2