On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> I seem to recall that someone on this list wrote about some clever
> scripts to automate the use of glimpse and mutt to search huge
> e-mail archives. Any pointers?
For mbox folders you could try something like this:
find ~/Mail -maxdepth 1 -type f | glimpseindex -z -F -H ~/mail-glimpse
and incremental indexing with:
find ~/Mail -maxdepth 1 -type f | glimpseindex -z -F -f -H ~/mail-glimpse
And don't forget to create a file ~/mail-glimpse/.glimpse_filters:
----- schnipp -----
*.gz gzip -dc
*.Z gzip -dc
*.bz2 bzip2 -dc
----- schnipp -----
Then you can try to search something with the following script:
---------------------- schnipp ----------------------------
#! /bin/sh
umask 077
tmpdir=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/glimpse.$$
mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1
trap "rm -rf $tmpdir; exit" 0 1 2 3 15
glimpse -z -H ~/mail-glimpse -y -B -i -h -d '^From ' "$@" \
| formail -s cat \
> $tmpdir/result
mutt -R -f$tmpdir/result
---------------------- schnipp ----------------------------
But be careful with this! It is quite untested... But maybe it's an
interesting starting point.
Tschoeeee
Roland
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