On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
> [mh/exmh description]
I want to thank you for the description of mh & exmh. You've mentioned
exmh several times in the past and that prompted me to look into it a
bit then. My impression is it looks like mh & exmh is a really good
system.
Old habits are hard to turnover (esp. for me), but I figure if I ever
change mail readers I'll switch over to exmh.
> Contrast this with grepping a normal BSD-type mail folder which is a single
> file containing many messages. This may seem trivial, but if you're a packrat
> (like me) and keep everything grepping through a file containing possibly
> hundreds of messages is all but a waste of time. Say for instance, I know
> someone on GNHLUG mentioned "jabber" in a URL within the last couple of days,
> ...
I wanted to mention that for BSD-type mail folders there *IS* a pretty
easy and yet powerful things one can do with glimpse for searching thru
old email.
- I run a cronjob each night that runs "glimpseindex" to index my BSD mail
folders each night (-f switch makes this only work on the new/modified
folders)
- To search for patterns in emails use the glimpse -d '^From ' switch.
This sets the record delimiter to be '^From ' instead of the default
newline "\n". Thus BSD-type folders are split up into 1 record per
email message.
- The glimpse "pattern" matching is basically like a web search, you
can AND or OR keywords together. glimpse is sometimes flakey, but it
works well (and I believe I heard there are better indexers on the
horizon).
- I put all these flags and other stuff in a wrapper shell script I call
"mailg" for mail-grep. Depending on how I envoke it, I can get a list of the
matching emails or it will dump them all to a temporary file, and then
run a mail reader on it, e.g. elm -f <tmpfile> or pine -F <tmpfile>
Anyway, I just wanted to point out there is a relatively painless way
to search BSD-type folders. I find the searches are quite fast on my
~100MB of email.
Best,
Karl Runge
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