Re: searching for emails by date using mutt
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:33:13PM EDT, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way, in mutt, to search for emails sent on a specific date? Say > emails sent on September 22 2010? > > Many thanks, > Ranjan > l to limit the box while index Start reading here http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#patterns-modifier You'll get to 3.4 for date info and examples.
searching for emails by date using mutt
Hi, Is there a way, in mutt, to search for emails sent on a specific date? Say emails sent on September 22 2010? Many thanks, Ranjan
Re: searching across folders using mutt
Le 30-05-2022, à 14:49:53 -0500, Ranjan Maitra a écrit : Can mairix and notmuch also search within attachments? I don't know but after a quick look, it seems that those tools only index text files.
Re: searching across folders using mutt
On Mon May30'22 07:25:28AM, steve wrote: > From: steve > Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 07:25:28 +0200 > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: searching across folders using mutt > > Hi Greg, > > Le dimanche 29 mai 2022 à 23:31, Greg Marks a écrit : > > > > > Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose > > e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? > > I guess mairix can do that. > > See https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/UseCases/SearchingMail Hi, Can mairix and notmuch also search within attachments? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan
Re: searching across folders using mutt
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 11:31:51PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: > According to the man page for notmuch: > >Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file >contains many messages), will not work with notmuch. If >that's how your mail is currently stored, it is recommended >you first convert it to maildir format with a utility such >as mb2md before running notmuch setup . > > Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose > e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? You could just use the filesystem and simple shell commands. It's not indexed, but grep is pretty fast. For example, which "folders" (aka files, in mbox format) contain messages with the subject line "some subject"? $ fgrep -l 'Subject: some subject' * Use grep -E or egrep for full regex search. Use "find . -type f | xargs grep ..." to search files in a directory tree. You may get some false positives when searching for a header if the body of an email contains a header line that matches, but overall this works well - it's what I do on the host where I have mbox format email. -- Cos
Re: searching across folders using mutt
Hello, On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 11:31:51PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? Mairix does: https://github.com/rc0/mairix Cheers, Ángel
Re: searching across folders using mutt
Hi Greg, Le dimanche 29 mai 2022 à 23:31, Greg Marks a écrit : Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? I guess mairix can do that. See https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/UseCases/SearchingMail
Re: searching across folders using mutt
On Sun May29'22 11:31:51PM, Greg Marks wrote: > From: Greg Marks > Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 23:31:51 -0500 > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: searching across folders using mutt > > > Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do > > not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about > > guessing the right folders. > > > > > notmuch will do exactly that. > > > > > > see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/ > > According to the man page for notmuch: > >Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file >contains many messages), will not work with notmuch. If >that's how your mail is currently stored, it is recommended >you first convert it to maildir format with a utility such >as mb2md before running notmuch setup . Thanks, I use maildir for a while now, so I am good with notmuch. Still wondering about notmuch vs. recoll, though. > Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose > e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? I seem to have read somewhere today that recoll works with mbox, but I am not sure if I read this correctly. Many thanks again! Ranjan
Re: searching across folders using mutt
> Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do not > know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about guessing > the right folders. > > > notmuch will do exactly that. > > > > see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/ According to the man page for notmuch: Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is currently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir format with a utility such as mb2md before running notmuch setup . Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format? Best regards, Greg Marks signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: searching across folders using mutt
On Sun May29'22 08:14:20PM, steve wrote: > From: steve > Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 20:14:20 +0200 > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: searching across folders using mutt > > Hi Ranjan, > > notmuch will do exactly that. > > see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/ > > best, > > steve Steve, Indeed, thanks very much! I have now found notmuch and also found recoll (that I had previously never heard of). Here is a page with some help on how to use recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/MuttAndRecoll.html The python script is missing, but I was able to find it online by searching for it on DuckDuckGo. For notmuch, there is some advice here: http://log.or.cz/?p=228 I found this from this other website on mutt tricks from a Rice University history professor: https://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~wcm1/mutt-tips.html Anyway, I was wondering, what are the pros and cons of recoll vis-a-vis notmuch? Both appear to do similar things. Many thanks again, and best wishes, Ranjan > Le 29-05-2022, à 10:40:27 -0500, Ranjan Maitra a écrit : > > > Dear friends, > > > > I have now been using mutt for about 20 months or so, having graduated from > > sylpheed, and life is generally well, but for one issue, and that is > > searching across folders. > > > > So, suppose I know that I have an email in some folder with "stuff" in the > > subject line. Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. > > But when I do not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been > > simply about guessing the right folders. Sometimes I get lucky, and > > sometimes I put it away, and occasionally, I do get lucky on a > > timed-release format, but I was wondering if I can get rid of this reliance > > on luck, as both my years and size of folders go up. > > > > Is there an easy way to do this in mutt? I would like to stick to simple > > tools (and stay in mutt) if possible. > > > > My email is pulled in by fetchmail from a POP3 server (gmx) and processed > > by procmail into folders. I do not use IMAP. I thought I would put this in > > in case it was relevant. > > > > Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes, > > Ranjan > > > >
Re: searching across folders using mutt
Hi Ranjan, notmuch will do exactly that. see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/ best, steve Le 29-05-2022, à 10:40:27 -0500, Ranjan Maitra a écrit : Dear friends, I have now been using mutt for about 20 months or so, having graduated from sylpheed, and life is generally well, but for one issue, and that is searching across folders. So, suppose I know that I have an email in some folder with "stuff" in the subject line. Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about guessing the right folders. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I put it away, and occasionally, I do get lucky on a timed-release format, but I was wondering if I can get rid of this reliance on luck, as both my years and size of folders go up. Is there an easy way to do this in mutt? I would like to stick to simple tools (and stay in mutt) if possible. My email is pulled in by fetchmail from a POP3 server (gmx) and processed by procmail into folders. I do not use IMAP. I thought I would put this in in case it was relevant. Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes, Ranjan
searching across folders using mutt
Dear friends, I have now been using mutt for about 20 months or so, having graduated from sylpheed, and life is generally well, but for one issue, and that is searching across folders. So, suppose I know that I have an email in some folder with "stuff" in the subject line. Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about guessing the right folders. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I put it away, and occasionally, I do get lucky on a timed-release format, but I was wondering if I can get rid of this reliance on luck, as both my years and size of folders go up. Is there an easy way to do this in mutt? I would like to stick to simple tools (and stay in mutt) if possible. My email is pulled in by fetchmail from a POP3 server (gmx) and processed by procmail into folders. I do not use IMAP. I thought I would put this in in case it was relevant. Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes, Ranjan
Re: Faster message body searching
* Chinmaya Nagpal [2021-08-20 23:20]: > Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes? > I don't really use notmuch for much other than message body searching so > I'm considering if I should get rid of it entirely. If you don't know who is the correspondent and you wish to find message by body search then either you would use indexer like notmuch, and I am using "mu" indexer https://github.com/djcb/mu/ as I find it better; or maybe you could use simple `grep' to locate the message, which would be probably slower with larger number of Maildirs. In order to limit searches in bodies to specific conversant my Maildir setup is such that all emails related to specific email address are automatically saved to corresponding Maildir folder: ~/Maildir/u...@example.com is Maildir directory containing all emails to and from u...@example.com ~/Maildir/other-u...@other-example.com is Maildir directory containing all emails to and from other-u...@other-example.com That way if I wish to search with ~b narrowed and related to specific email address then the search goes much faster. Otherwise I have to use indexer to locate those messages which I do not know to which conversant they belong. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/
Re: Faster message body searching
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 01:49:27AM +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal wrote: Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes? $thorough_search, set by default, decodes each message before searching through it. You most likely want to do this, but it does slow the searching down. Each message is decoded to a temp file. You might see some speedup by setting $tmpdir to memory, e.g. "/dev/shm", during the search. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Faster message body searching
Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes? I don't really use notmuch for much other than message body searching so I'm considering if I should get rid of it entirely.
Re: Searching sent folder
On 07.02.18 03:54, David Woodfall wrote: > > When I use search or limit in my sent folder on an address it shows no > > matches. They seem to only work on subjects. Is there a way to get > > them to work on addresses? > > > > -dave > > > > I found limit ~C In the index, "/ ~h elephant" will find any such hiding in headers. Haven't you used ~b to search mail bodies? Admittedly the latter does not work on collapsed threads, in version 1.8.0. Erik
Re: Searching sent folder
When I use search or limit in my sent folder on an address it shows no matches. They seem to only work on subjects. Is there a way to get them to work on addresses? -dave I found limit ~C -dave
Searching sent folder
When I use search or limit in my sent folder on an address it shows no matches. They seem to only work on subjects. Is there a way to get them to work on addresses? -dave
Re: easier searching in my sent-mail folder
On 04Dec2015 20:45, Jurriaan <jurriaan_m...@onderneming10.net> wrote: Is there any way to have the 'l' command (limit) default to include searching the recipients email addresses in the sent mail folder? Normally, when I press 'l' and enter a word, that word is searched for in the email-address of the sender and in the subject, I think. In the sent-email folder, I'd like to default to the email-address of the recipient and the subject, since the email-address of the sender is rather less useful there. Is there anyway to do that? Optionally searching the entire body is fine too, of course. What you want is the $simple_search configuration variable. If the expression supplied to or does not look like a valid pattern expression (~f and so forth) or one of the special words "all", "tagged" etc, the string is embedded in the value of $simple_search, whose default is: ~f %s | ~s %s i.e. search the author and subject as you observed. You could write a folder-hook to set $simple_search specially when in your sent-email folder. For your interest, I set it to: set simple_search="~f %s | ~t %s | ~c %s | ~s %s" for all folders. I've tried searching in the documentation, but I've not found what I'm looking for. Do I need a limit-hook? Do I need a folder-dependent macro? It is buried in the "Simple Search" section (section 3.2 in mutt 1.5.24) of the Patterns section. It took me a while to find it just now also. Regrettably, on reflection, I think it is in the right place. If I were to suggets a doc improvement it would be to mention, tersely but at the start of the patterns section, that invalid patterns are treated as simple searches [link] and are inserted into the value of $simple_search if not one of the special words. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
easier searching in my sent-mail folder
Is there any way to have the 'l' command (limit) default to include searching the recipients email addresses in the sent mail folder? Normally, when I press 'l' and enter a word, that word is searched for in the email-address of the sender and in the subject, I think. In the sent-email folder, I'd like to default to the email-address of the recipient and the subject, since the email-address of the sender is rather less useful there. Is there anyway to do that? Optionally searching the entire body is fine too, of course. I've tried searching in the documentation, but I've not found what I'm looking for. Do I need a limit-hook? Do I need a folder-dependent macro? Thanks, Jurriaan
Re: easier searching in my sent-mail folder
From: Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Date: Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:52:42AM +1100 > On 04Dec2015 20:45, Jurriaan <jurriaan_m...@onderneming10.net> wrote: > >Is there any way to have the 'l' command (limit) default to include > >searching the recipients email addresses in the sent mail folder? > > > What you want is the $simple_search configuration variable. > > If the expression supplied to or does not look like a valid > pattern expression (~f and so forth) or one of the special words "all", > "tagged" etc, the string is embedded in the value of $simple_search, whose > default is: > > ~f %s | ~s %s > > i.e. search the author and subject as you observed. > > You could write a folder-hook to set $simple_search specially when in your > sent-email folder. For your interest, I set it to: > > set simple_search="~f %s | ~t %s | ~c %s | ~s %s" > > for all folders. > Most excellent. I'm not sure what is more impressing: the power of mutt or the speed of it's users. This is easily adapted to the hooks I already had for normal and sent-mail folders, which alter index_format and sorting. Many thanks! Jurriaan
Re: Searching To:-Headers in Sent Mail
On 03Jun2013 15:18, christian ebert blacktr...@gmx.net wrote: | * Erik Christiansen on Monday, June 03, 2013 at 23:41:59 +1000 | On 03.06.13 14:30, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: | I'd like to search messages by recipient in my Sent-Folder, but at least my | mutt install won't do it out of the box. | | To do that, I just use: | | / ~h some_recipient_name | | OK, that looks in all the headers, but you probably want to check Cc: as | well, anyway? (And [s]he's not likely to crop up in many other headers, | so mucking with a tight regex doesn't seem warranted.) | | / ~C some_recipient_name | | looks in to: and cc: And probably has the added advantage of being able to search entirely in mutt's in-memory knowledge of the message headers; I thuink mutt has to open and read messages if you ask to search all the headers. On this topic, I've recently been very pleased to search messages by address group. By transcribing my address db groups into mutt alias commands of the form (example): alias -group abcshop abcshop ABC Shop News shopn...@your.abc.net.au, ABC Shop Web Server abcshopord...@your.abc.net.au, ABCShop Online shopord...@your.abc.net.au I get both a mutt alias abcshop (not particularly useful in this particular example) but also a mutt group named abcshop. And that means one can use the: %C abcshop pattern to search for messages to/cc addresses in that group. This is outstandingly useful if you've got groups representing your employer or client companies and stuff like that; you can limit the mail view by one or more groups and then do further searching or browsing. I've got a macro named LB I use that limits to fairly comoplicated pattern I use a lot when review my mail history in a particular context. That pattern has been GREATLY simplified by using groups (%C, %f) instead of individual address matches (~C, ~f). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au The engine purrs beneath me with a purpose, ready for the pleasure of my hand upon the throttle. - Peter Smith
Searching To:-Headers in Sent Mail
I'd like to search messages by recipient in my Sent-Folder, but at least my mutt install won't do it out of the box. Is the scope mutt searches for limited by context (e.g. Sent-Folder) or do I have to use a special search keyword? THX p@rick -- Patrick Ben Koetter p...@state-of-mind.de
Re: Searching To:-Headers in Sent Mail
On 03.06.13 14:30, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: I'd like to search messages by recipient in my Sent-Folder, but at least my mutt install won't do it out of the box. To do that, I just use: / ~h some_recipient_name OK, that looks in all the headers, but you probably want to check Cc: as well, anyway? (And [s]he's not likely to crop up in many other headers, so mucking with a tight regex doesn't seem warranted.) Erik -- Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honour, make him pay cash. - Lazarus Long
Re: Searching To:-Headers in Sent Mail
* Erik Christiansen on Monday, June 03, 2013 at 23:41:59 +1000 On 03.06.13 14:30, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: I'd like to search messages by recipient in my Sent-Folder, but at least my mutt install won't do it out of the box. To do that, I just use: / ~h some_recipient_name OK, that looks in all the headers, but you probably want to check Cc: as well, anyway? (And [s]he's not likely to crop up in many other headers, so mucking with a tight regex doesn't seem warranted.) / ~C some_recipient_name looks in to: and cc: -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
Searching for an email by sender's address
Hi Guys, How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender? When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores the sender's (or recipient's) address. -- John
Re: Searching for an email by sender's address
On Apr 27, 2013 at 09:36 PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote: How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender? When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores the sender's (or recipient's) address. Try '~f'. So limit, then `~f name`.
Re: Searching for an email by sender's address
Incoming from John Niendorf:
How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender?
When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores
the sender's (or recipient's) address.
I prefer grepmail. It's its own .deb in Wheezy, or
http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/
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Re: Searching for an email by sender's address
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:36:15PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote: How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender? When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores the sender's (or recipient's) address. One option is to use the sort o function. -- Greg Donoghue g...@gmx.us
Re: Searching for an email by sender's address
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 03:49:48PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: Try '~f'. So limit, then `~f name`. Thanks Tim, That seems to work pretty well. -- John
problem with mailcap and searching
I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple lines in my .mailcap such as: image/jpg; xview %s image/jpeg; xview %s these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found hoping someone can help me fix this annoying little problem, Thank you.
Re: problem with mailcap and searching
On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple lines in my .mailcap such as: image/jpg; xview %s image/jpeg; xview %s these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found Mutt is looking for a rule in your .mailcap for converting image/jpeg attachments to plain text. Such rules must contain the 'copiousoutput' flag. Unless you have some meaningful way of generating text from a JPEG image, you may need to add some sort of no-op rule like this (untested): image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput just to give mutt something to execute. Regards, Gary
Re: problem with mailcap and searching
Hi Gary, Thanks for swift reply. Your solution works in that it fixes the 'search' problem, but it means that I can't view the attachments with 'v' - there needs to be a way to use 'switch' in the mailcap, or get mutt to use different mailcaps in different contexts. Cheers, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple lines in my .mailcap such as: image/jpg; xview %s image/jpeg; xview %s these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found Mutt is looking for a rule in your .mailcap for converting image/jpeg attachments to plain text. Such rules must contain the 'copiousoutput' flag. Unless you have some meaningful way of generating text from a JPEG image, you may need to add some sort of no-op rule like this (untested): image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput just to give mutt something to execute. Regards, Gary
Re: problem with mailcap and searching
On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple lines in my .mailcap such as: image/jpg; xview %s image/jpeg; xview %s these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found Mutt is looking for a rule in your .mailcap for converting image/jpeg attachments to plain text. Such rules must contain the 'copiousoutput' flag. Unless you have some meaningful way of generating text from a JPEG image, you may need to add some sort of no-op rule like this (untested): image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput just to give mutt something to execute. Thanks for swift reply. Your solution works in that it fixes the 'search' problem, but it means that I can't view the attachments with 'v' - there needs to be a way to use 'switch' in the mailcap, or get mutt to use different mailcaps in different contexts. Did you use the copiousoutput rule in addition to your original rule, or did you replace the original rule by the copiousoutput rule? You can and should use both, e.g., image/jpeg; xview %s image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput See http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#mime for a little more on this. Regards, Gary
Re: problem with mailcap and searching
Aha! Fixed. Many thanks, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple lines in my .mailcap such as: image/jpg; xview %s image/jpeg; xview %s these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found Mutt is looking for a rule in your .mailcap for converting image/jpeg attachments to plain text. Such rules must contain the 'copiousoutput' flag. Unless you have some meaningful way of generating text from a JPEG image, you may need to add some sort of no-op rule like this (untested): image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput just to give mutt something to execute. Thanks for swift reply. Your solution works in that it fixes the 'search' problem, but it means that I can't view the attachments with 'v' - there needs to be a way to use 'switch' in the mailcap, or get mutt to use different mailcaps in different contexts. Did you use the copiousoutput rule in addition to your original rule, or did you replace the original rule by the copiousoutput rule? You can and should use both, e.g., image/jpeg; xview %s image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput See http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#mime for a little more on this. Regards, Gary
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:49:57AM +0200, j...@telefonica.net wrote: Nico, I will search for your macro to see what can I do with regular expressions. For your convenience: macro index , tag-pattern!~D^Jtag-prefix-condsave-message/path/to/some/maildir/^J^Jend-condsync-mailbox Move all undeleted messages to maildir folders Then use ',' to move all undeleted mail to a maildir. Change the tag-pattern to your liking, and, of course, the save-message path. Nico --
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
Thanks friends for your proposal. I like to receive all new mail in the same inbox and after read them, each one must be moved, if not deleted, to its final store mailbox according to list or author. Nico, I will search for your macro to see what can I do with regular expressions. -- Jose Angel Navarro Cortes email: j...@telefonica.net web: http://janc.es/ Usuario Linux: #49178 El 10.09.09 23:13:35 Nicolas Williams dijo: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:53:07AM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:57:51PM +0200, j...@telefonica.net wrote: I'm searching about a hook that will save to its mailbox all mails with To: list_...@server.com after had read them, I think when changing mailboxes. Now, I received all mails to +spoolfile but I would like to move with a hook the ones coming To: list_...@server.com after had read them. I have tried with save-hook, fcc-hook, but I can't find which one will do that move or copy. Mutt does not really have any automatic filtering built in. What most people do in this situation is to use something like procmail to filter incoming mail into separate mailboxes per email list, then put mailboxes +list1 +list2 in their ~/.muttrc to be informed when each mailbox has new mail. Mutt has a wonderful regular expression language that makes it easy to write small, powerful search expressions. Searches are filters, really (see gmail). It seems like a pity that mutt doesn't have a first-class filter. Procmail is not easy to use by comparison to mutt. Sure, sure, if you're using a text-based MUA you can write procmail filters. True. But for some use cases external programs like getmail, fetchmail and procmail all fall short. For example, I've given up on fetchmail because it dropped 30K messages once (from a 100K msg folder). I've given up on getmail because it doesn't preserve message flags, so if I've an IMAP Inbox that I want to leave a few days' worth of messages at a time for accessing from multiple MUAs (say, mobiles), then I can't use getmail to later move those off the IMAP server. (No, the getmail maintainer was not interested in patches to preserve message status/flags.) If I use IMAP, can't or don't leave mail on the server, but can use neither getmail nor fetchmail then how am I to use procmail? So I use mutt as a mail fetcher. It's easy: I've a simple macro that tags all un-deleted messages and the tag-saves them to their destination (I've posted this macro before). It'd be easy to add multiple steps, with each step tagging messages matching a given filter, then tag-saving to specific folders. Well, 'easy' is relative -- easy for me, but then, I don't file e-mail (I depend on searches). Mutt could provide this off the shelf, and then it would be really easy. Seems like a shame to have a great search language that cannot also be used for writing filters. Mutt has everything it needs to replace that getmail/fetchmail/procmail mix -- only the finishing touches are missing. Nico --
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
* Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@oracle.com [09-10-10 00:19]: But for some use cases external programs like getmail, fetchmail and procmail all fall short. For example, I've given up on fetchmail because it dropped 30K messages once (from a 100K msg folder). I've given up on getmail because it doesn't preserve message flags, so if I've an IMAP Inbox that I want to leave a few days' worth of messages at a time for accessing from multiple MUAs (say, mobiles), then I can't use getmail to later move those off the IMAP server. (No, the getmail maintainer was not interested in patches to preserve message status/flags.) If I use IMAP, can't or don't leave mail on the server, but can use neither getmail nor fetchmail then how am I to use procmail? simple. Use mutt as you do now and access your mail from outside via ssh. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:57:51PM +0200, j...@telefonica.net wrote: I'm searching about a hook that will save to its mailbox all mails with To: list_...@server.com after had read them, I think when changing mailboxes. Now, I received all mails to +spoolfile but I would like to move with a hook the ones coming To: list_...@server.com after had read them. I have tried with save-hook, fcc-hook, but I can't find which one will do that move or copy. Mutt does not really have any automatic filtering built in. What most people do in this situation is to use something like procmail to filter incoming mail into separate mailboxes per email list, then put mailboxes +list1 +list2 in their ~/.muttrc to be informed when each mailbox has new mail. me
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:53:07AM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:57:51PM +0200, j...@telefonica.net wrote: I'm searching about a hook that will save to its mailbox all mails with To: list_...@server.com after had read them, I think when changing mailboxes. Now, I received all mails to +spoolfile but I would like to move with a hook the ones coming To: list_...@server.com after had read them. I have tried with save-hook, fcc-hook, but I can't find which one will do that move or copy. Mutt does not really have any automatic filtering built in. What most people do in this situation is to use something like procmail to filter incoming mail into separate mailboxes per email list, then put mailboxes +list1 +list2 in their ~/.muttrc to be informed when each mailbox has new mail. Mutt has a wonderful regular expression language that makes it easy to write small, powerful search expressions. Searches are filters, really (see gmail). It seems like a pity that mutt doesn't have a first-class filter. Procmail is not easy to use by comparison to mutt. Sure, sure, if you're using a text-based MUA you can write procmail filters. True. But for some use cases external programs like getmail, fetchmail and procmail all fall short. For example, I've given up on fetchmail because it dropped 30K messages once (from a 100K msg folder). I've given up on getmail because it doesn't preserve message flags, so if I've an IMAP Inbox that I want to leave a few days' worth of messages at a time for accessing from multiple MUAs (say, mobiles), then I can't use getmail to later move those off the IMAP server. (No, the getmail maintainer was not interested in patches to preserve message status/flags.) If I use IMAP, can't or don't leave mail on the server, but can use neither getmail nor fetchmail then how am I to use procmail? So I use mutt as a mail fetcher. It's easy: I've a simple macro that tags all un-deleted messages and the tag-saves them to their destination (I've posted this macro before). It'd be easy to add multiple steps, with each step tagging messages matching a given filter, then tag-saving to specific folders. Well, 'easy' is relative -- easy for me, but then, I don't file e-mail (I depend on searches). Mutt could provide this off the shelf, and then it would be really easy. Seems like a shame to have a great search language that cannot also be used for writing filters. Mutt has everything it needs to replace that getmail/fetchmail/procmail mix -- only the finishing touches are missing. Nico --
Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
Hi all. I'm searching about a hook that will save to its mailbox all mails with To: list_...@server.com after had read them, I think when changing mailboxes. Now, I received all mails to +spoolfile but I would like to move with a hook the ones coming To: list_...@server.com after had read them. I have tried with save-hook, fcc-hook, but I can't find which one will do that move or copy. I already move the ones I send to that list with: fcc-hook '~t \\list_...@server\.com\\' ~/mail/list_one Thanks in advanced for your help. Best regards. -- Jose Angel Navarro Cortes email: j...@telefonica.net web: http://janc.es/ Usuario Linux: #49178
Re: Searching for hook to save new read mail to its particular mailbox
=- j...@telefonica.net wrote on Tue 7.Sep'10 at 12:57:51 +0200 -= I'm searching about a hook that will save to its mailbox all mails with To: list_...@server.com after had read them, I think when changing mailboxes. Use macro rather than hook to save before change, replace your change-folder key with that macro. -- © Rado S. -- You must provide YOUR effort for your goal! EVERY effort counts: at least to show your attitude. You're responsible for ALL you do: you get what you give.
Re: Body searching
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:57:11PM +0800, fvw wrote: / ~b EXPR Thanks. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
Re: Body searching
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:57:11PM +0800, fvw wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:36:25AM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: How can I search through the body of all messages in a folder? I have mairix set up for my archives, but not my inbox. My current setup would make it problematic to do so. Is it possible to do a simple search through the message bodies of the current folder? / ~b EXPR For me, that works on uncollapsed threads only, so I need to precede it with EscV . I'm not aware of a way around that. Erik -- Each year, humanity's ecological overdraft gets larger, ... and nature doesn't do bailouts. - Andrew Simms
Body searching
Hey, How can I search through the body of all messages in a folder? I have mairix set up for my archives, but not my inbox. My current setup would make it problematic to do so. Is it possible to do a simple search through the message bodies of the current folder? Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
Re: Body searching
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:36:25AM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: Hey, How can I search through the body of all messages in a folder? I have mairix set up for my archives, but not my inbox. My current setup would make it problematic to do so. Is it possible to do a simple search through the message bodies of the current folder? / ~b EXPR
Re: searching in search results
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:36:43PM -0600, lee wrote: is it possible to somehow search within search results? Thanks a lot for your answers! I didn't even know that it's possible to combine different search criteria in one line, and I've been using mutt for years ... Combining them should be enough in most cases :) But I found two packages: mairix - indexes and searches email in locally stored email nmzmail - indexes and searches email in maildir folders I'll take a look at them and try them out, I'm curious what can be done with them. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
searching in search results
Hi, is it possible to somehow search within search results? For example, if I want to find a message of which I know the From: header and a word or some words of the body, how do I find it when going by either the From: line or the body only would give too many results? Maybe tag messages by From: header and then limit the search to tagged messages? That would work for two levels of searching only, unless I'd start copying messages around or so ... which I could do to begin with. Hmm. But is there a better way? -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
Re: searching in search results
* lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-19-08 21:37]: is it possible to somehow search within search results? For example, if I want to find a message of which I know the From: header and a word or some words of the body, how do I find it when going by either the From: line or the body only would give too many results? Maybe tag messages by From: header and then limit the search to tagged messages? That would work for two levels of searching only, unless I'd start copying messages around or so ... which I could do to begin with. Hmm. But is there a better way? Look at mairix, http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix mairix is a tool for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH, or mbox folders. The index contains a map of which words occur in which parts of which messages. Searches on this index are fast and generate symlinks to the matching messages in a new Maildir or MH folder, or copies of matching messages in an mbox folder, which can be browsed normally in a mail client. I have been using it for about two years and have been very pleased. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org
Re: searching in search results
Hi, * lee [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2008-11-19 20:36:43 Wed: is it possible to somehow search within search results? For example, if I want to find a message of which I know the From: header and a word or some words of the body, how do I find it when going by either the From: line or the body only would give too many results? I recommend Mairix as well, but otherwise you can simply use a more complex search pattern, such as `~fuser~bword', where `user' and `word' stand for the strings you are looking for. This pattern will only match messages that are both from `user' and contain `word'. -- David Haguenauer pgpQlaXhgp7Wk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: searching in search results
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:36:43PM -0600, lee wrote: Hi, is it possible to somehow search within search results? For example, if I want to find a message of which I know the From: header and a word or some words of the body, how do I find it when going by either the From: line or the body only would give too many results? l the first part, then / within that. -Robin -- They say: The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons. And I'm thinking: Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome? -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
Re: searching in search results
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:36:43PM -0600, lee wrote: is it possible to somehow search within search results? For example, if I want to find a message of which I know the From: header and a word or some words of the body, how do I find it when going by either the From: line or the body only would give too many results? Search or limit, then ~f joe ~b 'meeting tonight' would search or limit to messages that have joe in the From: line and meeting tonight in the body. By default, search terms are logically ANDed together so that only messages meeting all criteria are returned. You can use ~f joe | ~b 'meeting tonight' to return messages that meet ANY critera (logical OR), and ! for negation. man muttrc and search for logical operators for examples. Ed signature.txt Description: Digital signature
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
another shot in the dark, set edit_headers Wrapping headers in the editor mode? That'll do! many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
* Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-30-08 08:35]: another shot in the dark, set edit_headers Wrapping headers in the editor mode? That'll do! That is the configuration that provided wrapping in the headers? Who'd have thought :^) glad to have helped. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:05:55PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 11:59]: yes, I didn't notice that you were still using User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 6.3.205. smart_wrap Type: boolean Default: yes Controls the display of lines longer then the screen width in the internal pager. If set, long lines are wrapped at a word boundary. If unset, lines are simply wrapped at the screen edge. Also see the ``$markers variable. IF this does not resolve your problem, I guess an upgrade is in order. I would say that an upgrade *should* be made in any circumstance. But that is in pager. I get text wrapping in the pager fine. And yes, I can use smart_wrap and markers for a clearere wrapping display. HOwever, I can't wrap the input fields either during inputting, or after enter in the message sending interface. I tend not to use the development branch, and stick to stable, but I'll see if mutt-devel will be able to solve this problem. I'll report back. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:05:55PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 11:59]: yes, I didn't notice that you were still using User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 6.3.205. smart_wrap Type: boolean Default: yes Controls the display of lines longer then the screen width in the internal pager. If set, long lines are wrapped at a word boundary. If unset, lines are simply wrapped at the screen edge. Also see the ``$markers variable. IF this does not resolve your problem, I guess an upgrade is in order. I would say that an upgrade *should* be made in any circumstance. But that is in pager. I get text wrapping in the pager fine. And yes, I can use smart_wrap and markers for a clearere wrapping display. HOwever, I can't wrap the input fields either during inputting, or after enter in the message sending interface. I tend not to use the development branch, and stick to stable, but I'll see if mutt-devel will be able to solve this problem. I'll report back. I just installed mutt-devel-1.5.18_1. I added set wrap = -1 to leave 1 space free on the right hand side of the screen. However, the behaviour in message sending interface is still the same. top of the screenshot during message sending interface y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj a:Attach file d:Descrip ?:Help From: Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reply-To: cut the screenshot i.e. To, Cc and Bcc do not wrap, but are cut at the edge of the screen. HOw can I make them wrap? Do To,Cc,Bcc lines wrap for other mutt users? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:41:27PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-29-08 10:52]: I just installed mutt-devel-1.5.18_1. I added set wrap = -1 to leave 1 space free on the right hand side of the screen. However, the behaviour in message sending interface is still the same. top of the screenshot during message sending interface y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj a:Attach file d:Descrip ?:Help From: Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reply-To: cut the screenshot i.e. To, Cc and Bcc do not wrap, but are cut at the edge of the screen. HOw can I make them wrap? Do To,Cc,Bcc lines wrap for other mutt users? Guess that only leaves the terminal application... What term are you using? ps aux | grep term I don't know much about setting different parameters in term. I am using xterm in openSUSE 10.1: Just to be clear, are you saying your To/Cc/Bcc wrap in the compose menu? I have the same behaviour with xterm-235 or syscons (the default FreeBSD virtual terminal). I understand how wrapping is controlled in the pager and the editor modes, basically the editor settings (vi in my case) and mutt settings wrap, smart_wrap and markers. However, what is controlling wrapping in the index and the compose modes, perhaps some library on which mutt depends? Is it possible to wrap in the index mode at all? It seems to me that the terminal control is similar in the index and the compose modes. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
* Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 10:39]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:22:41AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: if your terminal program is utilizing emacs keystrokes, meta-f or alt-f will go forward one word (white space delimited) and meta-b or alt-b will go backward one word. Maybe this will help. Patrick, yes, I know about this facility. It is in section 2.2 Editing Input Fields. On my system it's ESC/B and ESC/F to move backwards and forwards one word respectively. This is good, but it would be better to be able to view the whole list at once, or to be able to search within the list. other options, set wordwrap in your editor. I use jed with mail-mode, but I know that joe also has wordwrap. I see the entire list with headers enabled in my editor. Not on the text entry line at the bottom of the mutt screen, but after enter the To/Cc/Bcc lists are all wrapped. I believe that this (not the bottom line) is controlled via .muttrc, set wrapcolumn=-6 -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 10:39]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:22:41AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: if your terminal program is utilizing emacs keystrokes, meta-f or alt-f will go forward one word (white space delimited) and meta-b or alt-b will go backward one word. Maybe this will help. Patrick, yes, I know about this facility. It is in section 2.2 Editing Input Fields. On my system it's ESC/B and ESC/F to move backwards and forwards one word respectively. This is good, but it would be better to be able to view the whole list at once, or to be able to search within the list. other options, set wordwrap in your editor. I use jed with mail-mode, but I know that joe also has wordwrap. I see the entire list with headers enabled in my editor. Not on the text entry line at the bottom of the mutt screen, but after enter the To/Cc/Bcc lists are all wrapped. I believe that this (not the bottom line) is controlled via .muttrc, set wrapcolumn=-6 I use vi, and words do wrap in the editor, though not in the input fields. When I enter the To/Cc/Bcc long list, it is cut at the terminal edge, not wrapped. The wrapcolumn is not recognised by my mutt: % mutt Error in /home/mexas/.muttrc, line 3: wrapcolumn: unknown variable source: errors in /home/mexas/.muttrc Press any key to continue... % and it doesn't appear in the manual either: 6.3. Configuration Variables [skip] 6.3.234. weed 6.3.235. wrap_search [skip] I should probably add mutt -v: %mutt -v Mutt 1.4.2.3i (2007-05-26) Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) [using ncurses 5.6] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +COMPRESSED +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO -ISPELL SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail MAILPATH=/var/mail PKGDATADIR=/usr/local/share/mutt SYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc EXECSHELL=/bin/sh -MIXMASTER To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. vvv.initials 1.3.28.nr.threadcomplete rr.compressed many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:57:20PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 10:39]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:22:41AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: if your terminal program is utilizing emacs keystrokes, meta-f or alt-f will go forward one word (white space delimited) and meta-b or alt-b will go backward one word. Maybe this will help. Patrick, yes, I know about this facility. It is in section 2.2 Editing Input Fields. On my system it's ESC/B and ESC/F to move backwards and forwards one word respectively. This is good, but it would be better to be able to view the whole list at once, or to be able to search within the list. other options, set wordwrap in your editor. I use jed with mail-mode, but I know that joe also has wordwrap. I see the entire list with headers enabled in my editor. Not on the text entry line at the bottom of the mutt screen, but after enter the To/Cc/Bcc lists are all wrapped. I believe that this (not the bottom line) is controlled via .muttrc, set wrapcolumn=-6 I use vi, and words do wrap in the editor, though not in the input fields. When I enter the To/Cc/Bcc long list, it is cut at the terminal edge, not wrapped. The wrapcolumn is not recognised by my mutt: % mutt Error in /home/mexas/.muttrc, line 3: wrapcolumn: unknown variable source: errors in /home/mexas/.muttrc Press any key to continue... % and it doesn't appear in the manual either: 6.3. Configuration Variables [skip] 6.3.234. weed 6.3.235. wrap_search [skip] I should probably add mutt -v: %mutt -v Mutt 1.4.2.3i (2007-05-26) Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) [using ncurses 5.6] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +COMPRESSED +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO -ISPELL SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail MAILPATH=/var/mail PKGDATADIR=/usr/local/share/mutt SYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc EXECSHELL=/bin/sh -MIXMASTER To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. vvv.initials 1.3.28.nr.threadcomplete rr.compressed Patrick, writecolumn doesn't seem to appear in mutt-devel (1.5.18) either. There is wrap, which is the substitute for the deprecated wrapmargin. I put set wrapmargin = -5 in my mutt-stable (1.4.2.3), but see no difference. The To/Cc/Bcc fields after enter are still not wrapped, but cut at the right edge of the terminal. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
Re: searching or wrapping input fields
* Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-27-08 11:59]: I use vi, and words do wrap in the editor, though not in the input fields. When I enter the To/Cc/Bcc long list, it is cut at the terminal edge, not wrapped. The wrapcolumn is not recognised by my mutt: yes, I didn't notice that you were still using User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i % mutt Error in /home/mexas/.muttrc, line 3: wrapcolumn: unknown variable source: errors in /home/mexas/.muttrc Press any key to continue... % Upgrade mutt. You are missing a *lot* of enhancement and features :^( I'm at 1.5.13. And the oldest .muttrc example I have is from 2003-06-19, Mutt 1.5.4i. www.mutt.org, manual for 1.4.2.3i shows 6.3.205 smart_wrap: 6.3.205. smart_wrap Type: boolean Default: yes Controls the display of lines longer then the screen width in the internal pager. If set, long lines are wrapped at a word boundary. If unset, lines are simply wrapped at the screen edge. Also see the ``$markers variable. IF this does not resolve your problem, I guess an upgrade is in order. I would say that an upgrade *should* be made in any circumstance. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org
Re: Searching imap folders
Hi, I would like to find a way to search multiple folders on imaps from with Mutt. I tried getting mairix to work but it seems to want to only search local folders. Is there a another way to search imap folders that are only available remote? One good way is to have a local copy of them, using a tool like offlineimap, and then point mutt and mairix to the local maildir instead of the imap server. Plus you get offline access to your e-mail as a bonus! /v -- Vincent Beffara UMPA - ENS Lyon 46 Allée d'Italie 69364 LYON cedex 07 Tel: 04 72 72 85 25 Fax: 04 72 72 84 80 pgp5IHYb5hP5v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Searching imap folders
On 06/13/08, Vincent Beffara wrote: Hi, I would like to find a way to search multiple folders on imaps from with Mutt. I tried getting mairix to work but it seems to want to only search local folders. Is there a another way to search imap folders that are only available remote? One good way is to have a local copy of them, using a tool like offlineimap, and then point mutt and mairix to the local maildir instead of the imap server. Plus you get offline access to your e-mail as a bonus! Does offlineimap provide a stable setup when you have 100s of emails and 10s of folders? -- respectfully, |Joseph | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Searching imap folders
On 06/13/08 10:29, Joseph wrote: Does offlineimap provide a stable setup when you have 100s of emails and 10s of folders? I've started using offlineimap a few months ago, and use it for two different mail accounts and 17 different mailboxes. One of them is for a mailing list that can easily receive 100 e-mails a day. Absolutely no problem, offlineimap is great and v fast. I actually started using it from the same situation that you are in, having heard about mairix and realizing you can't use it over imap. But now I'm delighted by the easy synchronization not just between offline use and imap accounts, but also between different machines. And needless to say, working with local folders is much faster than working on the imap folders, at least for me. m.
Re: Searching imap folders
One good way is to have a local copy of them, using a tool like offlineimap, and then point mutt and mairix to the local maildir instead of the imap server. Plus you get offline access to your e-mail as a bonus! Does offlineimap provide a stable setup when you have 100s of emails and 10s of folders? Yes, and it is extremely fast (I have about 12k messages totalling 500Mo in about 30 mailboxes, and offlineimap keeps going just fine. One sync with no new message takes about 3 to 5 seconds ...) The only thing that it doesn't sync back to the imap server is the creation of local mailboxes, everything else (moving e-mail, marking as read/unread, deleting) is flawless. /v PS: Well one caveat is if you are using darwin / mac os x, then there is a nasty bug due to the system's implementation of realloc() that interacts with python's socket library. It should be fixed by now - and in any case, the worst that can happen is that offlineimap randomly crashes on large e-mails, but it will not lose email in the process. -- Vincent Beffara UMPA - ENS Lyon 46 Allée d'Italie 69364 LYON cedex 07 Tel: 04 72 72 85 25 Fax: 04 72 72 84 80 pgpfOO4uDfLZl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Searching imap folders
I would like to find a way to search multiple folders on imaps from with Mutt. I tried getting mairix to work but it seems to want to only search local folders. Is there a another way to search imap folders that are only available remote? -- + respectfully, Joseph =+ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
searching in base64-encoded messages
Hi all Occasionally, I get mail where the content is base64 encoded [...headers...] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 [...more headers...] SGkgR2HDq2wsCgpBY3R1YWxseSB3aGVuIHdvcmtpbmcgd2l0aCBncmFwaHMgSSBwcmVmZXJyZWQg aWdyYXBoIG92ZXIgbmV0d29ya3g6Cmh0dHA6Ly9jbmV1cm9jdnMucm1raS5rZmtpLmh1L2lncmFw aC8KCi1qZWxsZQoKX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19f The problem is that I can search the message body for some text only when I view it in the pager since Mutt correctly decodes the content. But from the message index a search ~b EXPR matches nothing b/c, I guess, Mutt does not decode anything then. Can I solve this from within Mutt, e.g. decode a message before a search, just like it is done when viewing it? I found nothing in the manual and also http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset didn't help much. If not, I have to decode the message content before Mutt reads it. Python and Perl have facilities to do that, but I will need to parse the message and fiddle out the encoded content (at least with the Python route, I played with that a little). If possible, I would like to save this work if anybody knows if there are tools which do that already ... ? Of course the best would be if I could solve it with some macros/hooks with Mutt since, apparently, Mutt can do exactly that :) Many thanks! steve
Re: searching in base64-encoded messages
On Apr 14 14:24, Angel Olivera wrote: On Mon 14.Apr.08 14:11, Steve S wrote: Occasionally, I get mail where the content is base64 encoded [...] The problem is that I can search the message body for some text only when I view it in the pager since Mutt correctly decodes the content. But from the message index a search ~b EXPR matches nothing b/c, I guess, Mutt does not decode anything then. Can I solve this from within Mutt, e.g. decode a message before a search, just like it is done when viewing it? I found nothing in the manual See $thorough_search. Ah, that one was hiding. I looked for [_]*decode[_]*, not [_]*search[_]* in the manual. I presumed that this is a frequent need and that there is a setting. Exactly what I need - perfect. Thanks a lot! steve
Re: searching in sent
* On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 Pau Amaro-Seoane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered:
I have not found the way of modifying the To: thing. It must be
related to $to_chars, but how? Thanks for your answer
This is what I have:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4c) %s
Change %-15.15L into %-15.15F
%F - author name, or recipient name if the message is from you
%L - If an address in the To or CC header field matches an address
defined by the users ``subscribe'' command, this displays To
list-name, otherwise the same as %F.
HTH,
Michael
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Re: searching in sent
This is what I have:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4c) %s
I have not found the way of modifying the To: thing. It must be
related to $to_chars, but how? Thanks for your answer
2007/12/6, Nicolas Rachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-06 14:15 +0100]:
and yet I would love to get rid of the To: thing... I don't have a
From: in my inbox... it's a word repeated unnecessary as many times
as email I have sent... I know I have sent them, it's the SENT
folder...
Redefine $index_format in your sent folder.
Nicolas
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Re: searching in sent
I must be mentally retarded, but I tried that one and it didn't work
for me... I get always the To:... ??? Please corroborate mi IQ
2007/12/7, Michael Tatge [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 Pau Amaro-Seoane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered:
I have not found the way of modifying the To: thing. It must be
related to $to_chars, but how? Thanks for your answer
This is what I have:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4c) %s
Change %-15.15L into %-15.15F
%F - author name, or recipient name if the message is from you
%L - If an address in the To or CC header field matches an address
defined by the users ``subscribe'' command, this displays To
list-name, otherwise the same as %F.
HTH,
Michael
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Re: searching in sent
[Please do not top-post] * Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-07 16:11 +0100]: I must be mentally retarded, but I tried that one and it didn't work for me... I get always the To:... ??? Please corroborate mi IQ I just noted that I don't know a way to avoid the 'To '. I seem to ignore it automatically. Sorry. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas
Re: searching in sent
Hi, yes, absolutely; ~b stas does find stas What I mean is that when I am in my inbox folder, I usually have to look for an email from somebody; what I usually do is to look for that somebody and then order the folder according to the sender, this way I can quickly look for the email I was looking for. Whilst in inbox this is as easy as / stas enter oo, in sent, when I do / stas enter mutt doesn't find anything even if I have 250 emails from that person. Since the only obvious difference between inbox and sent is that To: field, I thought this could be the problem. In any case, now I have set default_hook=(~f %s !~P) | (~P ~C %s) | ~s %s in my muttrc and still / stas does not yield any result. I don't understand the ~s part of it, what's is it piping into? Thanks, Pau PS: Of course, I can always do ~ b stas, but I like to understand what the problem is 2007/12/5, Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, December 5 at 12:03 AM, quoth Nicolas Rachinsky: * Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-04 16:39 -0600]: Searching in any index (sent, inbox, whatever) relies on the value of $default_hook, which defaults to ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s). I think you mean $simple_search with the default ~f %s | ~s %s. Right! Sorry, my mistake. ~Kyle - -- He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHVd9/BkIOoMqOI14RArtWAKDdpwuS+SEfC23WHf5NKMH1dgpJrwCgpaRG wssRcSWme4EGCEzHfBIrvso= =ojUG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: searching in sent
[please do not top-post] * Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-06 12:41 +0100]: I think you mean $simple_search with the default ~f %s | ~s %s. Right! Sorry, my mistake. In any case, now I have set default_hook=(~f %s !~P) | (~P ~C %s) | ~s %s in my muttrc and still / stas does not yield any result. I don't understand the ~s part of it, what's is it piping into? Why did you set default_hook and not simple_search? This is mentioned in the mail you are replying to. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas
Re: searching in sent
and yet I would love to get rid of the To: thing... I don't have a From: in my inbox... it's a word repeated unnecessary as many times as email I have sent... I know I have sent them, it's the SENT folder... 2007/12/6, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why did you set default_hook and not simple_search? This is mentioned in the mail you are replying to. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas because I am preparing a big move to another country and I didn't look carefully? my excuses, my fault thanks a lot Pau
Re: searching in sent
Why did you set default_hook and not simple_search? This is mentioned in the mail you are replying to. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas because I am preparing a big move to another country and I didn't look carefully? my excuses, my fault thanks a lot Pau
Re: searching in sent
* Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-06 14:15 +0100]: and yet I would love to get rid of the To: thing... I don't have a From: in my inbox... it's a word repeated unnecessary as many times as email I have sent... I know I have sent them, it's the SENT folder... Redefine $index_format in your sent folder. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas
searching in sent
Hi, / is a wonderful tool to search for keywords in the inbox BUT not in sent... because mutt adds automatically a To in the field, which seems to spoil the search: 24 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 13) tomorrow 25 F Dec 03 To Guste( 3) Re: nos vamos 26 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 8) Re: tomorrow 27 F Dec 03 To Guste( 36) Re: nos vamos 28 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 24) Re: tomorrow Is there a way to get rid of that To in the 5th column? Pau
Re: searching in sent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, December 4 at 11:07 PM, quoth Pau Amaro-Seoane: / is a wonderful tool to search for keywords in the inbox BUT not in sent... because mutt adds automatically a To in the field, which seems to spoil the search: 24 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 13) tomorrow 25 F Dec 03 To Guste( 3) Re: nos vamos 26 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 8) Re: tomorrow 27 F Dec 03 To Guste( 36) Re: nos vamos 28 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 24) Re: tomorrow Is there a way to get rid of that To in the 5th column? Generally speaking, no, there isn't. However, that's not what is breaking your search (trust me). Mutt does not search the text that is displayed; it searches the underlying details of the messages. Searching in any index (sent, inbox, whatever) relies on the value of $default_hook, which defaults to ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s). All mutt searches rely on simple patterns, and default_hook is a good example of what can be done with simple patterns. What happens is that the string you're searching for gets substituted into $default_hook in place of the %s markers. Thus, if you searched for foo, that's equivalent to searching for ~f foo !~P | (~P ~C foo). Translated into English, that means: search for messages originating from foo but not from me (as defined by the alternates command) OR messages from me that are addressed to or CC'd to foo. If you're having trouble searching in your sent folder, then my guess is that you haven't sufficiently informed mutt of your email addresses (using alternates). Personally, I frequently prefer a $default_hook setting of: set default_hook=(~f %s !~P) | (~P ~C %s) | ~s %s ~Kyle - -- Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. -- Harry Truman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHVdcQBkIOoMqOI14RAhn/AKD4mAFUsWmUZrsT2u1hEML07zpD8wCgn9Uk KFq28YWuc6esumuZ1hujNAs= =xRnZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: searching in sent
On 2007-12-04, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, / is a wonderful tool to search for keywords in the inbox BUT not in sent... because mutt adds automatically a To in the field, which seems to spoil the search: 24 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 13) tomorrow 25 F Dec 03 To Guste( 3) Re: nos vamos 26 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 8) Re: tomorrow 27 F Dec 03 To Guste( 36) Re: nos vamos 28 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 24) Re: tomorrow Is there a way to get rid of that To in the 5th column? You can change the way those lines in the index are formatted by setting your 'index_format' differently for your sent folder with a folder-hook. See the manual. But what makes you think that those To's are spoiling your search? / does not search the text of the display--it searches attributes of the messages. By default, mutt expands the / command according to the 'simple_search' configuration variable to search the From and Subject fields. If you want to search for a particular recipient, then specify ~t in the search pattern, like this: Search for: ~t stas That's in the mutt manual, too, under Patterns. HTH, Gary
Re: searching in sent
* Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-04 16:39 -0600]: Searching in any index (sent, inbox, whatever) relies on the value of $default_hook, which defaults to ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s). I think you mean $simple_search with the default ~f %s | ~s %s. Nicolas -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas
Re: searching in sent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, December 5 at 12:03 AM, quoth Nicolas Rachinsky: * Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-04 16:39 -0600]: Searching in any index (sent, inbox, whatever) relies on the value of $default_hook, which defaults to ~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s). I think you mean $simple_search with the default ~f %s | ~s %s. Right! Sorry, my mistake. ~Kyle - -- He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHVd9/BkIOoMqOI14RArtWAKDdpwuS+SEfC23WHf5NKMH1dgpJrwCgpaRG wssRcSWme4EGCEzHfBIrvso= =ojUG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
searching
I'm thinking about switching to mutt. Major deterrant: the crappy search functionality. When my index is displayed and I press / to do a search, it only searches the screen. If I want to search message bodies, it seems I have to open each message and do the search; not practical if I have a mailbox containing over a hundred messages. Am I missing something?
Re: searching
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002, MindFuq wrote: I'm thinking about switching to mutt. Major deterrant: the crappy search functionality. When my index is displayed and I press / to do a search, it only searches the screen. If I want to search message bodies, it seems I have to open each message and do the search; not practical if I have a mailbox containing over a hundred messages. Am I missing something? You are missing a HUGE something. Look at http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.2 for all your search options. -Ken
OT: grepm and mbox indexing (was: Re: searching across mailboxes)
Hi, * Knute [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Fre 22 Feb 2002 13:00:00 GMT]: On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Thomas Baker wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Adam Byrtek wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? You should try grepm at http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html [...] grepm is a wrapper for grepmail. It works well, but grepm only searches one mailbox for matches. No. grepm hands all options to grepmail and therefor is abel to scan multiple mboxes or whole directory structures: Grepmail -- according to the manpage has the option for recursion though. When I've used grepm, it works great, and is easier to find matches than searching thru the index to find it. Yes, ist's great. Does anybody knows a mbox full text indexing and searching package? Ciao, Gregor
searching across mailboxes
Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? Thanks. -- Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria Programmer Analyst http://www.uvic.ca UNIX System Administrator Victoria, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching across mailboxes
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? You should try grepm at http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html -- _.|._ |_ _.: Adam Byrtek, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_|||_)| |(_|: gg 1802819, pgp 0xB25952C0 |
Re: searching across mailboxes
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Adam Byrtek wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:56:20 +0100 From: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: searching across mailboxes On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? You should try grepm at http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html I understand grepmail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/grepmail) does something like this, but I haven't tried it myself (and am curious). Tom ___ Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Birlinghoven Library, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven +49-2241-14-2352 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619 Home: Stubenrauchstr. 64 home-office +49-30-8109-9027 14167 Berlin, Germany mobile +49-171-408-5784
Re: searching across mailboxes
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:41:21PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Adam Byrtek wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:56:20 +0100 From: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: searching across mailboxes On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? You should try grepm at http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html I understand grepmail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/grepmail) does something like this, but I haven't tried it myself (and am curious). Tom grepmail's a great little app. Basically what it does is, it works like grep except it expects the file it's searching to be a From -delimited mbox file. For each match it finds, it outputs the entire message containing that line. The output (which is normally spit to stdout) can be redirected to a file to create a new mbox file if desired. -- John Buttery (Web page temporarily unavailable) msg24689/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: searching across mailboxes
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Thomas Baker wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Adam Byrtek wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:56:20 +0100 From: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Adam Byrtek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: searching across mailboxes Well that was fun. Made me wonder what I broke in mutt! :) hehehe... On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: Is there a way in mutt to search across all my local mailboxes for a message that is from a specific person and then display the list of matches so I can go through and look for the message I want? You should try grepm at http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html I understand grepmail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/grepmail) does something like this, but I haven't tried it myself (and am curious). grepm is a wrapper for grepmail. It works well, but grepm only searches one mailbox for matches. Grepmail -- according to the manpage has the option for recursion though. When I've used grepm, it works great, and is easier to find matches than searching thru the index to find it. -- Knute You live, You die. Enjoy the interval! -- Clarence msg24690/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Header cache patch and searching through multiple mailboxes
[ Dire-Warning: this is a proof of concept script, it works for me on my
system. Other than that I can't say, except that it requires a
development version of mutt and a patch that is labelled by it's author
as broken... ]
I have about 50,000 messages in a couple of dozen nfs mounted Maildirs
(all the old stuff is in mbox archives) - Searching all this mail is a
big drag, since mutt can't 'limit' across multiple mailboxes and
grepping through all this junk can take hours.
Michael Elkins' header cache patch is an experiment in speeding up
access to Maildirs by scattering db files everywhere - I have the idea
that eventually these db files can speed-up searching as well.
This script can search those 50,000 email headers and populate a
temporary results folder containing 3,000 messages in about 40 seconds.
It's an *extremely* blunt instrument, but I hope it will inspire
somebody else to write something a bit more elegant and precise.
It can be called with a macro, though you have to switch to the
'=search-results' folder to see the results:
macro index \cL shell-escape'search-maildir.pl '
It takes a single perl-regex argument, which it matches against
everything, sort-of like these:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'(Newbie Question|unsubscribe|@yahoo.com|@hotmail.com|BIG5)'
--
Bruno
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Fcntl;
use DB_File;
use File::Find;
# This script requires the mutt header caching patch from
# http://www.sigpipe.org:8080/mutt/ NOTE: currently this patch is declared
# broken, so this will probably delete all your files, drink your beer and eat
# your cat. Bruno Postle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Change these and make sure $resultdir exists as a Maildir, NOTE: this script
# will *delete* all existing files in $resultdir
my $mailfolder = /home/bruno/Mail;
my $resultdir = $mailfolder/search-results;
my $pattern = $ARGV[0];
my ( %hash, @folders );
unlink $resultdir/cur/*;
find ( { wanted = \maildirs }, $mailfolder );
sub maildirs
{
return unless /hcache\.db/;
return if ( $File::Find::name =~ /$resultdir/ );
my $maildir = $File::Find::name;
$maildir =~ s/\/hcache\.db//;
push @folders, $maildir;
}
foreach ( @folders )
{
my $x = tie %hash, DB_File, $_/hcache.db
or die Cannot open $_/hcache.db: $!\n;
find ( { wanted = \messages }, $_ );
undef $x;
untie %hash;
}
sub messages
{
return unless /:/;
my $uid = $File::Find::name;
$uid =~ s/.*\/([^\/]*):.*/${1}/;
if ( $hash{$uid} =~ /$pattern/i )
{
link ( $File::Find::name, $resultdir/cur/$uid:2,S );
}
}
1;
target line for searching in builtin pager
By default the matched line is just glued at the top. Is there something like a target line for the search function in the builtin pager? (Something like -j for `less'?) -Hanspeter
Re: Searching through headers? (Message-ID)
* Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-01-06 15:04]: Hello, I'd like to search for a header, specifically, the Message-ID header, but haven't found a way to do that in Mutt yet. Do you know how? Thanks, Carlos. http://mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.2 ~h EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message header ~i ID message which match ID in the ``Message-ID'' field -- Eunjea [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kldp.org/~eunjea/ GnuPG fingerprint: 08C9 2D3F 91B2 D395 2EFF 4C33 544C 321C E194 91CF msg22401/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: process substitution (was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail)
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: Hi Peter, Hi Gregor, hi mutt users, [...] mutt -f (grepmail -h cco@ *) i see mutt reading messages from /dev/fd/63, a few messages from grepmaiol and then: the mutt index which first looks fine but when I hit enter to read a message the pager was empty... Sorry, I seem to have properly tested it with zsh only. I assumed that bash does it the same way (create a temp file), and changed the =( syntax to ( for my posting. Thanks Christian and Vineet for the recherche. Peter -- VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...
Searching thru message headers?
I know I can search thru message bodies, but how do I search thru their headers? Thanks, Carlos. -- _ _ _| _ _ | _ . _ | _ to hell with icq, use jabber! (_(_|| |(_)_) |(_|\/|(_)|(_| THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK?
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Re: Searching thru message headers?
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29-12-2001 15:01]: | On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:20:30PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: | I know I can search thru message bodies, but how do I search thru | their headers? | From the manual: | 4.2. Patterns | ... | ~h EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message header | ... | | So type /~hheader(s) to search for Probably superfluous, but the combination of body and headers is ~B. Wanted to share it, because this is the one I use most often... -- René Clerc - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner msg22002/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: process substitution (was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail)
* Gregor Zattler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011218 03:44]: Hi Peter, hi mutt users, * Peter Poeml [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon 10 Dez 2001 20:04:17 GMT]: [...] As mentioned before, grepmail can jump in because mutt works on single mail boxes. Now I was curious and figured out the command for your real example: mutt -f (grepmail -huqd between 2001-09-01 and 2001-10-01 \ ^From.*frob@(foo|bar).net mbox1 mbox2 mbox3) This seems cool but when i gave it a (much more simppler) try: mutt -f (grepmail -h cco@ *) i see mutt reading messages from /dev/fd/63, a few messages from grepmaiol and then: the mutt index which first looks fine but when I hit enter to read a message the pager was empty... also ae (ls) emacs (ls) jed (ls) did not work. Any hints? Well, it won't help the bash-users out there, but anyone willing to give zsh a try will benefit from this excerpt from the Process substitution of the zshexpn manpage: Both the /dev/fd and the named pipe implementation have drawbacks. In the former case, some programmes may automatically close the file descriptor in question before examining the file on the command line, particularly if this is necessary for security reasons such as when the pro gramme is running setuid. In the second case, if the programme does not actually open the file, the subshell attempting to read from or write to the pipe will (in a typical implementa tion, different operating systems may have different behaviour) block for ever and have to be killed explicitly. In both cases, the shell actually supplies the information using a pipe, so that programmes that expect to lseek (see lseek(2)) on the file will not work. ... If = is used, then the file passed as an argument will be the name of a temporary file contain ing the output of the list process. This may be used instead of the form for a program that expects to lseek (see lseek(2)) on the input file. So this works for me: mutt -f =(mboxgrep -mmaildir '^From:.*callahan@homicide\.SFPD\.gov' $MAIL) mboxgrep even adds the wicked ^From_ lines! Really, though, zsh effectively does the same thing as what grepm does, with the temp file. Vineet -- Satan laughs when # I disapprove of what you say, but I will we kill each other.# defend to the death your right to say it. Peace is the only way. # --Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire, 1906 msg21763/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
process substitution (was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail)
Hi Peter, hi mutt users, * Peter Poeml [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon 10 Dez 2001 20:04:17 GMT]: [...] As mentioned before, grepmail can jump in because mutt works on single mail boxes. Now I was curious and figured out the command for your real example: mutt -f (grepmail -huqd between 2001-09-01 and 2001-10-01 \ ^From.*frob@(foo|bar).net mbox1 mbox2 mbox3) This seems cool but when i gave it a (much more simppler) try: mutt -f (grepmail -h cco@ *) i see mutt reading messages from /dev/fd/63, a few messages from grepmaiol and then: the mutt index which first looks fine but when I hit enter to read a message the pager was empty... also ae (ls) emacs (ls) jed (ls) did not work. Any hints? Ciao, Gregor P.S.: The problem the thread was involved with (searching on multiple mailboxes) can be easily solved with a shell script called grepm. It simply redirects grepmails output in a temorary file, starts mutt with this and deletes the temorary file when mutt is exited.
Re: process substitution (was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail)
Hello searchers in Mutt,
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
mutt -f (grepmail -h cco@ *)
i see mutt reading messages from /dev/fd/63, a few messages from
grepmaiol and then:
the mutt index which first looks fine but when I hit enter to read a
message the pager was empty...
Oops. I get the same result. Thinking about it, this is not
surprising. The process substitution construct creates a pipe to
avoid temporary files. If you want to access a message listed in the
index, you need random access to the mail box, which is something a
pipe does not give you.
So it's better to say something like eg,
grepmail -hm cco@ * /tmp/grpfldr ; mutt -f /tmp/grpfldr ; rm /tmp/grpfldr
And this is just what grepm does. People not using mbox format will
have to use mboxgrep (mentioned earlier in this thread).
ae (ls)
emacs (ls)
jed (ls)
Emacs cannot read from a pipe (at least not from the command line).
By the way: The pro searcher will create an index (in the sense of a
hash table) for his mail -- like real search engines and databases do.
Now I remember a tool called ``Managing Gigabytes'' which is often
used for searching in really big gobs of mail. You can find it there:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/
Cheers,
Cristian
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