Re: Searching multiple mailboxes?

David Morris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, robert delius royar wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I just googled grepmail.
>
> My mail is on an IMAP server, not a local mailbox.
>

It would not be a difficult task to write an IMAP client using Java, perl,
or python which would perform the search. When you first mentioned
grepmail, I assumed that was that it did since shell command line tools
are a pretty easy way to search a local mail store.
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