In ferreting out spam phrases, bad URL's, and in scanning e-mail in general, I think it'd be convenient if there were a grep-like utility that understood e-mail. Let's call it mail_grep. Mail_grep would be able to scan e-mail (in mbox format at a minium) for occurrences of a given string. To do this, mail_grep would (1) decode attachments, and (as a user-selectable switch) (2) attempt to extract the text from HTML attachments. Mail_grep would match the user-provided pattern against these decoded e-mail messages. Mail_grep would print hits in a grep like fashion, prepending the message number, or alternatively output the entire matching message to stdout. There are a lot of other things that mail_grep could do, but this would seem to be a good first start. I think most of these capabilities could be constructed using the Mail:: module, or by using Spamassassin's API. Unfortunately, I don't have time at the moment to try and build mail_grep, so I'm tossing the idea out here.
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