Re: Searching multiple mailboxes?

robert delius royar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
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
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