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
