I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Though all/most of your e-mail
messages should be in individual files scattered around Library/Mail, I would
suggest that using terminal to explore those directories is less than intuitive
especially since you are using Gmail as a provider where they have all mail
functionality and then links to those messages in other folders.
.
If you are looking to recover deleted messages and you are accessing gmail on
iphone/Macintosh Mail applications, and you have not changed Google's iMAP
deletion properties then all of your "deleted" messages are probably in the
archive folder, and there is a reasonable chance that things deleted in the
last 30 days are also in your "Trash" folder in the mail app.
> You mentioned terminal, so if you are determined to approach via this method,
> rather than trying to reverse engineer Mails structure I suggest you use the
> find command and let it run over an appropriate set of directories. When
> using Find with grep or other command line commands that can take several
> files there is a special argument for find so that grep does not get exec'd /
> forked for each file that needs examining. You could also look at creating a
> perl script that uses the Find module then you could do your search If this
> paragraph means completely in one process.
find /volume/backups/mymachine/THeDate/Users/myName/Library/Mail/ -exec grep
"My Search Term" \{\} /dev/null \; could be a starting recipe for what you are
attempting to do.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
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