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Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca> writes:

>
> I ran into this problem before as well. Storage is cheap. Notmuch could
> index all emails with reversed text to get around some of this
> problem. It doesn't solve the problem of *analysis*, but it's still an
> improvement.

It would probably be more useful to have brute force regexp searches on
headers.  Austin did some experiments that sounded promising, where you
basically postprocess the result of a xapian query with a regexp. OTOH,
I don't know what kept him from proposing this for mainline. If it was
just parser issues, those are probably more or less solved now, at least
for people using xapian 1.3+

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