On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:52:47AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all (and henry ;) ) > > > when i use the / key from the message index, it searches for a string within > the subject field of an email. > > very often, i want to search for emails by a person's name. > > how do i perform searches on the from field of an email?
I had a similar question recently. In elm, you could type "//" to search the bodies of messages. I couldn't figure out how to do that in Mutt until I bothered hitting "?" (for the help pages) and searchng "/" for the word "search" :) Try [Esc] [B] - it will search "bodies," which might include headers, too. (eg, the "From" field) There's also a nifty tool which I haven't played with much myself, called "grepmail" And, of course, there's always plain ol' "grep" (use some context, then pipe it to 'less' or another 'grep' for "^Subject: ") -bill!
