Re: Searching for messages

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.12.14 16:54:54 +0000 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach »Ali Akcaagac« am 2001-12-14 um 17:47:57 +0100 :
> > cd ~/mail
> > grep '<word to search> <mailboxname>'
> 
> *LOL*
> That was a good joke! :)
> 

yeah that was rather trollish :) but there's something called mailgrep
that despite not being what you need (it's still a console app :)) is
very good at looking through mails cause it understands mailbox formats
and can grep into compressed mailboxes
maybe a good stopgap

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