On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:18:26AM -0500, Smith, Craig A wrote:
> > I need a way to search through old email messages quickly and
> efficiently.
> > I would use this for listserv archives and, I hope, for personal
> email.
>
> Perl is very fast at matching arbitrary expressions.
>
>
> > For example, if I want to find every message where
> > "jones" (case insensitive) is found in the cc field and "linux" is
> found
> > in the message body, will they allow for that?
>
> Let's assume every message contains the string "Subject:" terminated by
> a new line (\n) and, when present, "CC:" also ends with a new line.
Let's not. Read RFC2822 section 2.2.3 Long Header Fields .
> Anything following that would be message body until the next message,
> starting with the "Date:" string. Something like
>
> =~ m/Subject:.*?\n.*?CC:.*?jones.*?\n.*?linux.*?Date:/gis
>
> might work.
Read the RFC... Then adjust for morons who don't, but write e-mail
programs.
florin
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