Email import and link between emails and attachments — how to see where an attachment came from

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Thank you for your help!

@BLUEFROG

If an attachment in an email is indexable, it will be part of the searchable text of the email.

OK, thank you, good to know. I misunderstood what is written in the documentation on page 78 then.

Imported email messages (.eml) have their contents indexed (excluding the contents of
attachments.

I tested and it worked, for indexable attachments. Where it doesn’t work is for PDFs without OCR. These can be searched when they’re separate elements, but not when they’re inside the message (since DT is not performing OCR on the attachments I suppose).

@BLUEFROG

there is no deduplication

OK, thank you. So the only way to achieve this (deduplication) + OCR of the attachments, would be to deactivate importing the attachments in the settings (which actually doesn’t deactivate importing the attachments, but only deactivates importing them as separate items?), and then use a script such as this one ? Separate imported e-mail attachments for better search

@BLUEFROG

Do you see the filename of the attachment in the Concordance for the email? I’m suspecting the answer is no.

Indeed, it’s not there.

@cgrunenberg

The filename isn’t indexed so far.

Oh, that’s sad. Is there a reason for that? If not, I’d like to suggest it as a minor improvement that can certainly be helpful in many situations.

@chrillek

Just wanted to point out that afaict there’s no requirement for an attachment to have a filename.

Thank you, good to know!