On Fri, Jul 20, 2007, List Receiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I'm trying to use the dbmail-export feature from 2.2.5 to create an mbox file 
> from a mailbox that only has certain addresses in the To or From fields.  I'm 
> unfamiliar with how to format that, and the man page and example from -h 
> hasn't been enough to get me going.  I've tried this:
> 
> dbmail-export -u user -m "my box" -s "1:* FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> That didn't work, however.  It produced a 0 byte file and no error code.  How 
> do I format an IMAP search string to select To and From? As well, is there a 
> way to do search strings for multiple To/From addresses?  I guess I just need 
> to know how to do search strings in IMAP land.  :^)
> 

Indeed! Check out RFC 3501: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3501.txt Section
6.4.4: SEARCH Command. I'll include a reference to it in the man page.
(Might even be worth excerpting the entire section?)

I believe what you're looking for is '-s "1:* HEADER From [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Plain FROM looks at the envelope sender (which might still produce some of
the results that you want, or might not). Also check out the AND and OR
commands.

Aaron
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