On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:21:49AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [05-07-13 09:55]: > > I currently use mairix to search through my mutt mail, it's OK but has a > > couple of disadvantages:- > > I use mairix, also > > > It's word oriented so one can't search for anything that it doesn't > > recognise as a word, I'd really prefer REs or something like. > > REs would be preferable but it does provide "fuzzy" searchs > Yes, I've used them occasionally, doesn't help with non alpha/number strings though.
> > It 'finds' the relevant messages by copying them to a new folder, > > sometimes this is OK but other times I want to know where the > > original E-Mail is. > > Look at the headers, it provides the location of "found" objects. > Oh, I hadn't noticed that, thanks. I need to make that X-source-folder: visible! -- Chris Green
