On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:32:02PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Monday 8 January 2001, at 9 h 5, the keyboard of Tollef Fog Heen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I intend to package mboxgrep, a utility which greps mailboxes. > > > > BTW, we already have sgrep, which is fine for that purpose. > and grepmail... > > Package: grepmail > Description: search mailboxes for mail matching an expression > Grepmail looks for mail messages containing a pattern, and prints the > resulting messages. It can handle compressed mailbox files, and can search > the header or body of emails. Usage is very similar to grep.
Hello! ... which afaik only understands (zipped) mbox-format. Of course you can use something like "find ~/mail -type f | xargs grepmail pattern", for Maildir (or mh). cu andreas