On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:34:10PM +0100, 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?
I think I did, a long time ago.
I use this script to index my mail archives:
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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/glimpseindex -o -z -H ~/Mail/archives ~/Mail/archives
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remember to correctly set up .glimpse_filters in the target directory if you
use gzipped archives.
Then, for searching I use this:
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#!/bin/sh
MBOX_FILE=/tmp/mboxfind.results.$$
MUTTRC_FILE=/tmp/mboxfind.muttrc.$$
echo "Searching, please wait a moment..."
glimpse -z -y -w -i -h -H ~/Mail/archives -d "^From " -e "$1" | formail -b > $MBOX_FILE
if grep "^From foo@bar" > /dev/null $MBOX_FILE
then
echo "No matches found"
else
echo "color body brightwhite red \"($1)\"" | sed -e 's/;/|/g' > $MUTTRC_FILE
echo "mono body bold \"($1)\"" | sed -e 's/;/|/g' >> $MUTTRC_FILE
echo "source ~/.muttrc" >> $MUTTRC_FILE
echo "bind pager c noop" >> $MUTTRC_FILE
echo "bind index c noop" >> $MUTTRC_FILE
mutt -R -F $MUTTRC_FILE -f $MBOX_FILE
fi
rm -f $MBOX_FILE $MUTTRC_FILE
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Works a treat.
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