begin quoting Gregory Ruiz-Ade as of Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:48:51PM -0800: > On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >I mostly want to find out what *folder* contains certain strings. For > >this, I like grep -l; with a maildir, I not only have to use */* > >instead of *, I have to play some shell games to get just the folders > >that contain the strings in question. > > I mostly do my searching from my IMAP client of choice. :P
Yeah, well, then it doesn't really matter when it comes to using 'grep' now, does it? :) An advantage of maildir was that you could "more easily" use grep to search. -Stewart "When it comes to finding the actual message, however..." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
