[Tutor] Introduction and ? re: searching the list's archives

[Robert Lilly]

>
> how about mutt.  it should come with a full distribution
> of cygwin.  it will likely take a few minutes to load a
> very large mbox, but you get powerful searches like:
>
>   show me all posts with a subject containing
>   "dictionary", a body containing "hashable", that have
>   been replied to and are PGP signed from 10/1/01 to
>   11/1/01
>
>   ~s dictionary ~b hashable ~Q ~g ~d 1/10/01-1/11/01
>
> see here for a full description of mutt patterns:
>
>     http://mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.2
>
> to run it on your file, just type:
>
>   mutt -f <name of mbox>
>
> for messages it finds, you will see them in a nice
> threaded format.

Thanks, I'll check that out as I'm still experiment with ways to search the
archive.

> if you have multiple mboxes to search there is a nice
> program that can search gzipped, bzip2ed mboxes, maildirs
> by date and regexes within headers and/or body.  it also
> includes a wrapper for mutt or pine called grepmail:
>
>   http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/

Cool, I'll definitely check this out as I have Pine already installed and
operational.

> wow, i am replying almost a month too late.

No problem! The reply was still relevant. Thanks!