* Christian Brabandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-14-08 09:40]: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > > Mairix to do indexing and searching of email, and Mairix, to the > > best of my knowledge, will not index a file. So I guess I'm asking > > why I can't > > No, mairix can index mbox files, it can even index bz2 and gzip > compressed mbox files. >
And does quite well. I've been using it instead of grepmail since they incorporated mbox compatability. Grepmail works but is quite slow. It is enhanced with a script, grepm (below): ___________________________________________________________________ #!/bin/sh # grepm - a wrapper for grepmail utilizing mutt # grepm-0.6 # written 1998-11-xx by Moritz Barsnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # updated 1998-12-22: added "-m" option for grepmail # added "exit 1" to trap # updated 1999-01-04: added check for empty "mailbox" (don't open mutt) # added messages # added umask (to keep others from reading your messages) # updated 1999-01-19: added trap for SIGPIPE (any other suggestions?) # updated 1999-07-05: added $TMPDIR; we're still subject to races ($TMPFILE # might exist) # updated 1999-11-29: have mutt open the temporary mailbox read-only - # there's no use in editing it anyway PROGNAME=`basename "$0"` TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp} umask 077 if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo 1>&2 "Usage: ${PROGNAME} arguments" exit 1 fi TMPFILE="${TMPDIR}/grepmail-output.$$" # I _would_ check this with "-e", but not all /bin/sh's understand it # so this is just a kludge if [ -f ${TMPFILE} -o -d ${TMPFILE} -o -w ${TMPFILE} ]; then echo 1>&2 "Temporary file ${TMPFILE} exists for some reason! Aborting." exit 1 fi trap "rm -f ${TMPFILE}; exit 1" 1 2 3 13 15 grepmail -m "$@" > "${TMPFILE}" if [ `wc -c "${TMPFILE}" | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ]; then echo 1>&2 "Calling mutt on results file (${TMPFILE})." mutt -R -f "${TMPFILE}" else echo 1>&2 "No matches." fi rm -f "${TMPFILE}" && echo 1>&2 "Deleted results file (${TMPFILE})." ___________________________________________________________________ -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org