for what it's worth, i stopped trying to do large-scale searching of my mail with the mh commands long ago, and instead use mairix:
+1 for mairix: it's fast and encoding-aware. although, like Paul Fox says, the indexing is a bit slow: 15 seconds for 2.3GB of msgs on a 2.4 GHz Pentium4. also, the syntax is CRAP so i wrote a wrapper around it. steve -- $ grep-mail -h usage: grep-mail [args] [STR] STR match STR -STR do not match STR (must be two characters or more) +FOLDER match messages in FOLDER -u summary output -w match whole strings -N match STR with up to N errors -t STR match STR in To: lines only -c STR match STR in cc: lines only -f STR match STR in From: lines only -s STR match STR in Subject: lines only -b STR match STR in message bodies only -n STR match STR in attachment names only -d BEGIN-END match messages with Date: between BEGIN to END -x update the index database -v print debug messages $ time grep-mail paul vixie matches+ has 37 messages (1-37); cur=1. 1 Mon 03/23/1998 10:07 To:NetSurfer Re: Criminal Activity on Your Net 2 Thu 06/04/1998 13:57 To:Michael Dorl Re: fyi | >> From: IN%"rmd@doit.w 3 Wed 11/11/1998 18:28 Paul A Vixie gotta love those internic boyz | 4 Wed 11/11/1998 19:39 Paul A Vixie was i asleep when the gtld server 5 Wed 11/11/1998 20:07 Marc Slemko Re: was i asleep when the gtld se 6 Thu 11/12/1998 00:02 "Steven J. Sobol" Re: gotta love those internic boy 7 Sat 11/21/1998 07:01 Paul Vixie Re: NSI policy on lame delagation 8 Sat 11/21/1998 18:39 Paul A Vixie Re: NSI policy on lame delagation 9 Sun 11/22/1998 22:38 Paul Vixie Re: NSI policy on lame delagation 10 Sun 11/22/1998 23:53 Paul A Vixie Re: NSI policy on lame delagation 11 Mon 11/23/1998 10:28 To:Paul Vixie eta re way-cool 8.1.2 (was Re: NS 12 Mon 11/23/1998 12:09 Wayne Re: WebTV.Net: Censorship Central 13 Mon 11/23/1998 13:13 Paul A Vixie Re: eta re way-cool 8.1.2 (was Re 14 Mon 11/23/1998 22:22 Paul Vixie Re: NSI policy on lame delagation 15 Tue 11/24/1998 10:42 To:Paul A Vixie ideas for sending some $ twords I 16 Tue 11/24/1998 10:42 To:Paul A Vixie ideas for sending some $ twords I 17 Fri 01/15/1999 10:47 To:"Jonathan A. Z Re: nocolr | > > Wanna test drive 18 Fri 01/15/1999 10:47 To:"Jonathan A. Z Re: nocolr | > > Wanna test drive 19 Thu 02/11/1999 12:11 To:Paul A Vixie Re: eta re way-cool 8.1.2 (was Re 20 Fri 02/12/1999 11:00 To:registry-proje What now? [was Re: Templates, etc 21 Mon 03/01/1999 14:57 To:"Steven J. Sob Re: status | > > On Mon, Mar 01, 22 Tue 05/11/1999 11:04 "Susan R. Harris" Draft NANOG agenda | Greetings - 23 Thu 06/17/1999 13:15 Levon Esibov RE: SRV records in BIND? | >Micro 24 Thu 06/17/1999 14:13 Paul Vixie Re: SRV records in BIND? | This i 25 Tue 06/22/1999 11:32 To:Paul A Vixie Re: [BIND-BUGS #142] [ISC SUPPORT 26 Tue 06/22/1999 14:13 To:Paul A Vixie Re: [BIND-BUGS #142] [ISC SUPPORT 27 Fri 07/02/1999 13:17 To:Paul A Vixie Re: followup, re: dns cache corru 28 Tue 07/20/1999 09:03 To:Paul Vixie Re: $GENERATE or $EXEC? | > From: 29 Fri 08/27/1999 14:09 "Susan R. Harris" NANOG17 agenda topics | Greetings 30 Wed 10/13/1999 16:11 Sean Donelan Re: MCI Worldcom fiber cut in Whi 31 Sat 04/13/2002 12:49 Tobias Oetiker [rrd-users] rrdtool-1.0.36 is rel 32 Fri 04/16/2010 10:42 To:UW-Physics Hel Re: [issue6436] Mar Proposals [st 33 Sun 02/06/2011 01:51 bergman@merctech. Re: [Nmh-workers] indexing | The 34 Tue 02/08/2011 11:59 Joel Uckelman Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing r 35 Tue 02/08/2011 19:26 Paul Vixie Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing r 36 Tue 02/08/2011 15:28 Earl Hood Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing r 37 Tue 02/08/2011 22:29 Paul Vixie Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing r real 0m0.294s user 0m0.240s sys 0m0.050s
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