Re: Searching multiple mailboxes?
robert delius royar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.pine.general |
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| Organization | An Apple OS X end user |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 (11:37 -0700 UTC) Matt Ackeret wrote: > > There's no way at all to search through multiple mailboxes for a message in > pine, right? > > i.e. I'm trying to find out who I sent a message to sometime in the > past. So it'll be in one of my sent-mail folders. I have no idea which one. > > Even if it'd be really slow, it'd be great if I could somehow search multiple > mailboxes to find something... even if I had to specifically pick which > mailboxes before hand (manually select in a list perhaps). > > I presume the only way I can do this is: > 1) go to first mailbox > 2) search > 3) go to second mailbox > 4) search > ... The external (perl) program grepmail could find the message using the -Y option: grepmail -Y '^TO:' [email protected] folder[s] could be called as an external command (pipe). grepmail syntax is much like grep's syntax. It also support recursing into directories. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info