Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think a better solution would be: > > - use the debian web site to search them > - tell procmail to put them in another directory mutt doesn't read > and use grep to search the message files.
Not really. The Debian website doesn't index all the mail I get, and grep is a pain for checking whether multiple words are in the same file, but on different lines. (Or in the same message, where there are multiple messages in a file.) freewais is great, because it can index my mail, howtos, man pages, etc and I can search for one thing and check where it comes up among all those sources. It does relevance calculations and uses soundex, so I can misspell something and still get meaningful output. (As for putting them where mutt can't find them, I don't know what problems mutt has on large folders, so I can't address it. I put my archives where Gnus can find them (because it's been known to be useful) but where I don't read them all the time. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! There is no statute of limitations on stupidity.
