> A few days ago, someone in #plan9 asked how to search for all > messages with a certain string in Acme Mail. The provided answer > was "grep(1)", which has the advantage of being concise and > maybe nominally correct, but the disadvantage of being totally > useless as a practical answer.
just to add to that. if Mail is not a requirement, ned has some interesting possibilities for messages with Mg in the "h" line, execute the h command g/Mg/h same thing for matches in the whole message g%Mg%h nupas ned allows you to search any file that upas/fs provides for a message. for example, if you want to print out all messages that reference a given message 25: p references [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25 1208 9/04 10:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: sata 57 1706 9/04 10:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: sata countdown to requests for threading in 3..2..1.. - erik