From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:27:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: Search using email headers does not work
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Re: Search using email headers does not work
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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
+	Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@suse.cz>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: Search using email headers does not work
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+On Tue, Feb 12 2013, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
+
+> Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
+>>
+>> It's embarrassing to me that I added this note to the notmuch TODO file
+>> in October 2009 (and it's still there):
+>>
+>>     Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed.
+>
+> One techicality is that we would presumeably want to support this both
+> for access via the CLI and via libnotmuch (e.g. for the python
+> bindings).  So there is the question of where to store the list of
+> indexed headers; perhaps in Xapian metadata. Or is there some simpler
+> solution?
+
+BTW: how does clients using libnotmuch instead of CLI find the location
+of mail store and Xapian database if those don't read the configuration
+file used by CLI (and reference database.path there) ? :D
+
+As the location of xapian database is known the location of mail store
+and '.notmuch' directory is also known -- the '.notmuch' directory could
+also contain some other dynamic information having accessor functions
+in libnotmuch... (?)
+
+Tomi