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

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Mon Nov 29 17:36:45 UTC 2021


On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 09:45:17AM -0500, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:03:31PM +0000,
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > From: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
> > Sender: Mutt-users <mutt-users-bounces at mutt.org>
> > To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:03:31 +0000
> > Subject: Search program that can find an E-Mail with an exact Date: match
> 
> > I'm looking for a way to find (and display) an E-Mail when I know the
> > exact value of the Date: header.
> 
> You know mutt can do that, right?
> 
> It lets you search for any header you want, by regex - which can of
> course just be a string, if you escape any regex metacharacters.
> 
> I just used mutt's limit command to seach for:
>   ~h'Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:03:31'
> 
> ... and it filtered to this message from you, and no others.

But does it do it recursively down a hierarchy of folders?  That's
what I need.

-- 
Chris Green


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