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

Bhaskar Chowdhury unixbhaskar at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 11:17:17 UTC 2021


Well, you might give it a shot a program called "Notmuch" or "Mu"
 ...both are mail indexer and search . Importantly , they have 
 machanism
 to integrate with most of the editors.

Thanks,
Bhaskar

Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:

> I'm looking for a way to find (and display) an E-Mail when I 
> know the
> exact value of the Date: header.
>
> The 'usual' search programs such as Mairix can't do this as they 
> all
> expect a date range and also expect it to be at least a day 
> long.
>
> I've also tried grepmail but that seems not to be able to search
> maildir E-Mails.
>
> Is there anything out there that can do this?
>
> I can grep for the E-Mail but then I'm left with the issue of
> extracting the body/text which is what I actually want.  Can I 
> 'pipe'
> the mailbox (found by grep) into mutt and then get the output on
> stdout, that's what I'd need.
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