[MlMt] search not looking at content of forwarded messages?

Eric Sharakan esharakan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 16:53:07 EST 2018


On 9 Mar 2018, at 4:46, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 Mar 2018, at 1:59, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a message I forwarded out to folks, along with my own 
>> additional content.  When I perform a search (either across All 
>> Messages or just my Sent Messages folder), if the search term exists 
>> only in the forwarded portion of the message, it's not listed in the 
>> search results.  It's like only my newly added content is indexed for 
>> search terms.
>
> This is using “Forward as Attachment”?

I just hit the forward button in the "Composition" toolbar button set.  
Does that forward as an attachment?  How would I know?

>
> I tried to reproduce this, but I wasn't able to. I suspect it might 
> not be related to forwarding, but the message itself. MailMate prefers 
> to index the plain text part of a message, but maybe this message did 
> not have the same textual content in the plain text part and the HTML 
> part... (It's a bit heuristic how this works.)
>
> If you can share the email (off list) with me then I can take a look 
> at it if you like.

I'll see if I can do that when I'm back at work on Monday.

Thanks.

-Eric

>
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