On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:40:54AM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
> 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.
Are you aware that mutt already has the ability to search for regexps?
I believe you're restricted to searching a single folder at a time
(maildir, mbox, or any other supported type) but aside from that it
might be close enough to what you're trying to do.
Walt Mankowski
