Re: Does Zoe index attachments?

Hi Frank,

On Jul 25, 2004, at 01:51, frank h. wrote:

> Hello, I am quite facinated by Zoe 0.5.9, it works splendid sofar.
> However, its usefulness for me would multiply if I could search for
> the contents of email attachments.
> I reckon that should be possible, since Zoe uses Lucene which seems to
> understand pdf and word fileformats.
> so can Zoe be instructed to index attachments as well?

The app doesn't index attachments beside message/rfc822 MIME types 
(e.g. other messages). Indexing other type of attachment would require 
translating their content to text so Lucene can index them properly. 
This can get cumbersome though... In any case, this would be a nice 
addition :)

Cheers,

R.



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