On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:11:23AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Duncan Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I just started using maildirs with mutt and procmail. I am planning on
> > writing a utility to allow me to search all of my maildir folders for mail
> > matching certain regexps and then linking them into a result folder also a
> > maildir that I could then browse with mutt.
>
> You might find that `find` and `egrep` can do what you want with little
> extra glue. Maildir format is so simple you don't have to worry about it --
> one message per file under /new and /cur, ignore everything under /tmp.
Very close to my intent. Find, regexps and python as glue. I may use tkinter
as a front end for prettiness.
>
> > Relatively simple but I am looking for details on maildir format so that I
> > dump my results without cheating. Does anyone have any ideas or pointers?
>
> djb's page on the Maildir format is here:
> http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Excellent. The astute may note that I currently don't use qmail on my office
box but I really love Maildir.
/Duncan
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Duncan Watson
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