Hi Yubin,

Yubin Ruan hat am Thu 18. Jan, 17:49 (+0800) geschrieben:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:29:38PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know one can hit / or l (i.e., limit) and then apply a search pattern to
> > search for messages in the current mailbox. But can we apply this to 
> > multiple
> > mailboxes? I would like to search for matched messages in all mailboxes and
> > then put them into a separate mailbox. For example, I have 10 mailboxes and
> > now I want to search in these 10 mailboxes for messages that have me in the
> > "To: " field and then put them into a separate mailbox.
> 
> Oh, I am using Maildir. So maybe some standalone script will help?

If it's Maildir, it's pretty simple. Create a new mailbox

mkdir -p /tmp/matches/cur /tmp/matches/new /tmp/matches/tmp

and copy all matching files there

cp $(grep -rli PATTERN ~/Mail) /tmp/matches/new
mutt -f /tmp/matches

Bye Jörg

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