On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:03:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just had a suggestion for what might be a nice feature for Mutt. The
> grepmail program is nice since it greps for e-mails containing something
> and spits them out in standard mail format. We could add a search mail
> function that does:
>
> grepmail <keyword> > /tmp/mutt-11241
>
> and then loads /tmp/mutt-11241 or whatever as the current box.
Are you talking about using grepmail on your current folder? If so, what is
wrong with `search' (default binding "/") and `limit' (default binding "l")?
Or do you mean *all* your mailboxes? In that case, how would mutt know where
to find the mailboxes you want to search (or ever which ones you wanted to
search)?
In the latter case you're probably better off simply writing your own short
grepmail wrapper that does all this for you. I've got something similar that
I use with glimpse. It does the search and, if something was found, it fires
up mutt with all the found messages in a folder. It ever writes a short
muttrc file that sets up colours so that the target words are highlighted.
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