| FT Pro: Finding Outlook Mail attachments [message #208] |
Fri, 25 July 2014 01:36  |
Phoebus
Messages: 1
Registered: July 2014
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After switching to a Mac and not being able to use X1 anymore, I was very
happy to find FoxTrot Pro. System load is minimal (except for the initial
indexing) and the functionality is quite good once you get used to it. One
thing stymies me, however:
I rely on FT to index my email, coming in via Outlook from an Exchange
Server. FT generally does a good job with the indexing. However, I can't
seem to find a way to identify whether email messages have an attachment
or, vice versa, whether the document with a found search string in fact is
an email attachment.
I may have missed a query method that can do this, but I can't seem to find
any useful hints in the help for FT Pro. If there is a way to do this, I'd
like to hear about it. If there is not, I would like to see this treated as
a feature request for the future.
Thank you!
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| Re: FT Pro: Finding Outlook Mail attachments [message #209 is a reply to message #208] |
Fri, 25 July 2014 14:52  |
FoxTrot Engineering
Messages: 384
Registered: April 2020
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Phoebus wrote:
> I can't
> seem to find a way to identify whether email messages have an attachment
> or, vice versa, whether the document with a found search string in fact is
> an email attachment.
FoxTrot relies on third party Spotlight importers to index data; in your case, it uses Outlook's Spotlight importer. AFAIK, this importer does not index email attachment contents (but it does index the attachment names). Unfortunately, I don't think we can do what you want.
However, if you want to search for an email containing a specific attachment name, you can use the [other metadata] criterion (the string will be searched in various metadata fields, but not in the contents nor in the filename of other indexed files).
Or if you want to search for an email that does (or does not) have a PDF or Word attachment, for example, you can add an [other metadata] [includes at least one of the words / does not include any of the words] [pdf doc docx] criterion.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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