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| author |  Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> | 2012-03-06 18:48:44 +0000 |
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| committer |  David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> | 2012-03-18 09:14:22 -0300 |
| commit | 2f2529563002324337d8d3be1e5335d8a1ca7b47 (patch) | |
| tree | 2dd75420407246d9540577c705f45beec0f30893 /man | |
| parent | b1130bc71c02efb504ad723b56f86618fd186a67 (diff) | |
man: Update raw format documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/notmuch-show.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 index 7bf1d569..1215f919 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 @@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html .TP 4 .BR raw " (default for a single part, see \-\-part)" -For a message, the original, raw content of the email message is -output. Consumers of this format should expect to implement MIME -decoding and similar functions. +For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw content +of the email message is output. Consumers of this format should expect +to implement MIME decoding and similar functions. For a single part (\-\-part) the raw part content is output after -performing any necessary MIME decoding. +performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that messages with a +simple body still have two parts: part 0 is the whole message and part +1 is the body. + +For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including all child +parts) is output. The raw format must only be used with search terms matching single message. |