System and method for displaying search results including email attachments

A system for searching messages, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• memory;
• and
• one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
• transmitting, to a server system, a search query including one or more query terms;
• receiving, from the sever system, a response to the search query including a search result identifying one or more messages having content that matches at least one of the one or more query terms;
• and
• displaying a representation of a respective message from the search result, wherein the respective message includes a message body and an respective attachment with attachment content, and displaying the representation of the respective message includes:
• in accordance with a determination that the attachment content of the respective attachment includes content that matches a query term from the search query, highlighting a representation of the respective attachment in the respective message, wherein the representation includes a snippet of content from the respective attachment in the respective message, the snippet including the content that matches the query term from the search query;
• and
• in accordance with a determination that the attachment content of the respective attachment does not include content that matches at least one query term from the search query, forgoing highlighting the representation of the respective attachment in the respective message.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions which, when executed by a client computer with one or more processors, cause the client computer to:

• transmit, to a server system, a search query including one or more query terms;
• receive, from the sever system, a response to the search query including a search result identifying one or more messages having content that matches at least one of the one or more query terms;
• and
• display a representation of a respective message from the search result, wherein the respective message includes a message body and an respective attachment with attachment content, and displaying the representation of the respective message includes:
• in accordance with a determination that the attachment content of the respective attachment includes content that matches a query term from the search query, highlighting a representation of the respective attachment in the respective message, wherein the representation includes a snippet of content from the respective attachment in the respective message, the snippet including the content that matches the query term from the search query;
• and
• in accordance with a determination that the attachment content of the respective attachment does not include content that matches at least one query term from the search query, forgoing highlighting the representation of the respective attachment in the respective message.