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

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:24:10AM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> I find this discussion a bit…surprising? It seems like "mboxgrep" (https://datatipp.se/mboxgrep/) 
> does this just fine. E.g. 
> 
>   mboxgrep -rH -m maildir 'Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:24:26 -0700' dir
> 
> recursively searches the headers of all mailboxes within 'dir' for the 
> pattern specified. I don't know that "-m maildir" is necessary, but it 
> works. 

I installed and tried mboxgrep, it failed miserably on my 'real'
maildir hierarchy.  It probably was tested (and works) on a maildir++
hierarchy that is all at one level with long rows of .... indicating
the 'depth'.

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Chris Green