[Dovecot] is there a script to find a message from a given username easily?
Patrick Nagel
patrick.nagel at star-group.net
Fri Nov 27 10:19:48 EET 2009
Hi Gary,
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:53:53 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> I used primarily mutt and sendmail for many years. (And elm
> before mutt.) All my mail was saved into ~/Mail. Messages
> from, say, smith at foo.ber were stored in ~/Mail/smith; all mail
> from smith was catenated into one file, and if I wanted to
> find something that smith had written, I would just cd to
> ~/Mail and grep or egrep on a likely word or phrase.
>
> Is there a script that can reach into my server into My
> maildirectory and cp or symlink (say) ~/Maildir/smith's files:
>
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 780 Apr 18 2008
> 1208585354.91013_3.aristotle:2,S
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 731 May 15 2008
> 1210901757.55602_4.aristotle:2,S
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 566 May 18 2008
> 1211140486.77700_3.aristotle:2,S
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 20 2008
> 1211326880.95596_4.aristotle:2,S
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 21 2008
> 1211393732.2283_3.aristotle:2,S
> 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 673 Apr 13 2009
> 1239636788.1457_3.aristotle:2,S
> 6 -rw------- 1 kline kline 4242 Apr 14 2009
> 1239748901.16354_4.aristotle:2,S
>
> into somthing named ~/Mail/smith, with all files catted
> together?
I don't see the connection to Dovecot here.
It sounds to me as if you could profit from Dovecot's Virtual mailbox
plugin [1] though. Create a 'smith' virtual mailbox with the search
condition you formerly used with grep. You can then access this virtual
mailbox via IMAP like any other mailbox.
Patrick.
[1]: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
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