[LUNI] Search every part of the e-mail?

[Keith T. Garner]

I thought about glimpse, except glimpse won't look into the attachments, 
would it?

I have been using mairix, but it has a similar problem.

Keith

On Fri, 18 May 2007 10:06 am, David Terrell wrote:
> Glimpse?
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:07:30PM -0400, Keith T. Garner wrote:
>>  So, I have a problem where I need to look at every e-mail from the 
>> past
>>  2 years and find certain search terms.  This inlcudes the contents of
>>  all attachments as well.    The mail is stored on linux in Maildor
>>  format and is also accessable via imap.
>>
>>  I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has any brilliant ideas that
>>  will save me time.
>>
>>  I figured I'd write a script to visit every e-mail box  then apply the
>>  search terms and time search.  The problem, though, is that this won't
>>  search the attachments.  So, I'm thinking I'll have to write another
>>  search to find everything that has an attachment and then write a
>>  potential buttload of code that knows how to (shell out to) examine 
>> each
>>  type of attachment I come across.
>>
>>  As a programmer, my first thought is 'write something' but maybe there
>>  is a better way.
>>
>>  Keith
>>
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