Re: grep/search through folder collections?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> One problem that I always find with this method is that there are false
> matches. Sometimes I do a Text seach and the match is in the mime encoding
> of an attachment, but not in the folder itself.

That's because the functionality was specified and implemented as 
equivalent to (and replacing) an fgrep through mailbox files.

Decoding messages, much less MIME, would be slower.

Hence what Steve suggested; use the crude but fast scan to identify the 
mailboxes through which you should do the more precise but much slower 
search.

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