Search box using mail headers

EagleFiler
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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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That makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Any feeling if the Google Labels to Tags will make it into a release anytime soon? Thanks.

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Delivered-To is searchable in the current public beta. I can probably make X-Gmail-Labels searchable in the next beta. Importing the labels as tags is something I still plan to investigate but is a longer-term project.

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Thanks for the updates. I will explore the betas.

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This is now available in the release version of EagleFiler 1.9.8.

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I made a new .efiler store and imported a Google MBOX from Google Takeout.

Line 4 of that file (in the headers), there is a

Delivered-To: name1+name2@gmail.com

line. Later in the file, there is another

Delivered-To: name2@gmail.com

Searching for any recipient or any address or anywhere only finds “name2@gmail.com” not “name1+name2@gmail.com”.

It is cool that any results are in recipients & addresses as well as anywhere. It would be nice to have multiple Delivered-To:s accumulated but this is great. I am guessing it is multiple and not the “+” that is the issue. To me, the plus is more important since it is a legal address.

Thanks,

Dave

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There shouldn’t be an issue with +. Currently it only indexes one Delivered-To header, but I can add it to the to-do list to index all of them.

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I made a new .efiler store and imported a Google MBOX from Google Takeout.

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Thanks for the updates..

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