On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:18:15PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:40:54AM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Actually that is part of it. I aggressively sort my mail into folders to keep
a handle on it. This causes me some difficulty when I want to find something
but can't remember who sent it. If I could remember the folder mutt would
find it easily. So I thought "Hey what if I just found the messages I needed
in the tree somewhere and linked them into one meta-folder called
=search-results. Then I could view the results in mutt and do more specific
searching on that folder"
So my goal is simple just create an enternal script that searches the various
folders I have and then link the result messages into a folder called
search-results. I will then browse the folder with mutt. This has the added
benefit of maintaining meta-information such as threading.
Actually the task doesn't look to hard. I already have scripts to find
messages which I use to identify likely folders to search. I just need to bit
the bullet and link the results into a maildir.
I hope this is more clear.
/Duncan
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Duncan Watson
nCube
