On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:45:56PM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > There must be a program out there that does this, but I'm having a hard > time finding anything appropriate. > > I want to filter a local mailbox (mbox or maildir would be fine) and > spit out mbox on stdout, with only the messages that match some filter. > An example might be, only messages more recent than 24 hours ago. > > Can procmail be wrangled into this sort of bulk processing? Is there something > else out there to do this? It seems like an immensely helpful thing to > have.
"Grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox for a given regular expression, and returns those emails that match it. Piped input is allowed, and date and size restrictions are supported, as are searches using logical operators." http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/ It is available in Fedora, so likely for debian disties as well. Njoy! -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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