Re: grepmail problem (resend)

Dan Pritts <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:53:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.grepmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The syntax you are using searches the file saved-mutt
for the string mutt.  

You probably want something like

 grepmail -b mutt /var/spool/mail/holtzman > saved-mutt

Substitute the actual location of your inbox folder for the /var/spool/mail
file i mention.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:59:30PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Forgot the attachment the first time. Sorry.
> 
> Not sure if this list is active or not but I'll give it a try anyway.
> 
> Back in July 2008 I installed grepmail and it worked flawlessly. Today I 
> sent myself a test email containing the word
> mutt, created the file ~/saved-mutt then ran "grepmail -bD mutt 
> saved-mutt". Nothing was written to ~/saved-mutt. The
> debug messages told me nothing (probably my lack of knowledge). I have 
> attached the debug file.

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