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Search box using mail headers

EagleFiler
#1

I am trying to archive GMail using Google Takeout and then importing it into EagleFiler.

The GMail labels are not coming in as tags on the email (which I expected). Looking at the raw stored messages, I see that they are part of the headers in the email, for example:

X-Gmail-Labels: Important,Trash,Opened,Category Forums

It appears that there is not a way to search for these labels nor any text in most other labels at the collection of emails level. It is possible to search within an email message.

Am I missing something?

#2

EagleFiler does not import the X-Gmail-Labels header as tags, though I can look into adding that in a future version. This header is also not indexed for searching.

I’m not sure what this is referring to. Could you give an example?

#3

What I was trying to say is that it was not possible to search for most of the email headers except once one was searching within a single email. While I think there is enough utility to consider importing the Google Labels as tags, I was trying to note a general solution of searching for various tag values did not exist (or I did not find). Thanks.

#4

Are there other headers that you want to be able to search? Currently, EagleFiler excludes most headers from search indexing because they could lead to unwanted search matches.

#5

I am away from my original file and bandwidth limited so I had to look at a smaller set but the other one I see that would be useful “Delivered-To:”, I forward mail from several locations into GMail and use addressing of base+text@gmail.com to know where it originally came from. Most of the time it is deducible in the To: header which is already included.

#6

That makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion.