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@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.
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