Searching for mails with a certain attachment name

[Andre Tann]

Hello everyone,

how can a search for a mail with a certain attachment name be done? This
mail:

[...]
--------------000001010308050100030808
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="4180.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="4180.pdf"
[...]

cannot be found: neither with global search (crtl-k) "4180.pdf", nor
with list filter "4180.pdf" (crtl-shift-k with message content
selected), nor with ctrl-shift-f > mail body (german: Inhalt) > contains
> "4180.pdf". None of these ways displays the e-mail, which obviously
does exist.

The only thing that finds my mail is a server side

grep "4180.pdf" Maildir/

which walks through the whole IMAP store.

But there must be end user compatible ways to do the trick...?

--
Andre Tann

[Steve]

That is possible with an add-on (although it may have problems with pure
numeric file names):

https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/how_can_i_search_for_an_attachement_by_name

[g]

On 04/11/2013 06:10 AM, Andre Tann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> how can a search for a mail with a certain attachment name be done? This
> mail:

i have used "body | contains" to search for attachments with much success.

i tried it again just now and it still works.

hth.

--

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc. hago.

g
.

[Steve]

There is a new add-on that creates an attachment search tab under Tools:

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html#attsearchtab