On 6.8.2010, at 4.16, emdeex wrote: > I want to search my Sent mail folder for all messages with a certain > subject, then "grep" out a certain line that has a dollar ($) figure, and > add up those figures. The idea is to just add up all the values of quotes > I've sent in a month.
a) Do it via IMAP protocol by using some IMAP library for Perl/Python/whatever. b) Upgrade to Dovecot v2.0.0 and do it via doveadm: doveadm fetch body mailbox Sent subject something body $ | grep '\$' | etc script processing