On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:21:58AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.05.13 14:53, Chris Green wrote: > > What other search programs work well with mutt? > > Mutt's own body search does the job for me within a mail folder, and > egrep provides full Extended Regular Expressions when searching some set > of my 1106 mail folders. Over more than a decade of mutt use, they've > always allowed me to find stuff quickly, even when I've no idea where an > email ended up. (So I've never had any need to look for anything else.) > > Neither suffers from the single word restriction, described. > Yes, one of the reasons I use mbox rather than maildir is the easier searching, I guess I can make myself a grep script.
-- Chris Green
