On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:47:52AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-05-07, Chris Green wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>     http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/
>     http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html

Yes, I was just thinking about grepmail which I use all the time with my
mbox mail archives.  It provides perl type regex functionality along
with mbox (and Maildir, I believe) parsing ability which taken together
provides very powerful search capability.  What I've been using for a
long time is a script I wrote that first runs grepmail with the search
expression I provide on the specified mboxs and saves the output to a
mbox file. Then the script runs mutt on that output file which gives me
further searching capability.  Highly recommended.

-- 
Will Fiveash

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