Re: [nmh-workers] Stupid 'pick' question...

[Bakul Shah]

On Jun 8, 2019, at 6:26 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:17:40 -0700, Bakul Shah said:
>> 
>> So pick runs -search on header lines as well as the body a header specific
>> option is only run against headers.
> 
> In a world of Microsoft Office attachments, is having -search go through the
> body by default as well still a good idea? Maybe having a separate -searchbody
> would be better?

The bigger issue is that -search seems to blindly match the
msg body. It doesn't even do mime decoding. So for example
the body of my prev msg to nmh is base64 encoded (even though
it is plain text) and -search fails. Unless I specify a search
pattern of encoded text such as 9uIEJpZyBlbmRpYW!