[Mutt] Search program that can find an E-Mail with an exact Date: match

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
> On Monday, November 29, 2021 at 12:03:31 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for a way to find (and display) an E-Mail when I know the
> > exact value of the Date: header.
> 
> notmuch appears to match specific date/times:
> 
>        date:<since>..<until> or date:<date>
> 
> DATE AND TIME SEARCH
>        notmuch understands a variety of standard and
>        natural ways of expressing dates and times, both in
>        absolute terms ("2012-10-24") and in relative terms
>        ("yesterday"). Any number of relative terms can be
>        combined ("1 hour 25 minutes") and an absolute date/time
>        can be combined with relative terms to further adjust it.
> 
>    The range expression
>        [...]
>        If specifying a time range using timestamps in
>        conjunction with the date prefix, each timestamp must be
>        preceded by @ (ASCII hex 40). As above, each timestamp
>        is a number representing the number of seconds since
>        1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. For example:
>           date:@<initial-timestamp>..@<final-timestamp>
>        [...]
> 
>    Single expression
>        date:<expr> works as a shorthand for date:<expr>..<expr>.
>        For example, date:monday matches from the beginning of
>        Monday until the end of Monday.
> 
But the 'Single expression' means (as it says) 'from the beginning of
<day> until the end of that <day>'.

I want to match something like '29 Jan 2010 11:34:13'.


Some further searching in the Ubuntu repositories has found mblaze
which includes various bits and pieces that can be piped together to
do what I want:-

    mdirs ~/mail | mlist | magrep 'Date:29 Jan 2010 11:34:13' | mshow



-- 
Chris Green