On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 19:56 -0800, Joseph Tam wrote: > > If you want to fetch message headers/bodies separately for multiple > > messages, then doveadm search is useful. With "doveadm fetch" you can't > > really know where one message ends and another one begins (although the > > ^L character between messages is a good indicator, it's not 100% > > reliable). And in any case it's more difficult to use for separating > > messages in a shell script. > > You could use, as I suggested, > > doveadm -f tab fetch -u bob 'mailbox-guid uid' ... | \
Oh, you meant this. > while read guid uid; do > ... > done > > which pretty much does the same thing (but you have to dump the first > line, ugh!). It doesn't matter all that much except some extra man > page reading, but it will save you the bother of having to maintain a > separate binary, man page, etc. for what is essentially a duplicate. Yeah, but it's more effort to remove it than to keep it as it is :) Also a "search" is somewhat simpler and prettier to use.
