searching across folders using mutt

[steve]

Hi Ranjan,

notmuch will do exactly that.

see https://notmuchmail.org/mutttips/

best,

steve

Le 29-05-2022, à 10:40:27 -0500, Ranjan Maitra a écrit :

>Dear friends,
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>I have now been using mutt for about 20 months or so, having graduated from sylpheed, and life is generally well, but for one issue, and that is searching across folders.
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>So, suppose I know that I have an email in some folder with "stuff" in the subject line. Now, I know how to search this (quite readily) in a folder. But when I do not know the folder it is stored in, so far, it has been simply about guessing the right folders. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I put it away, and occasionally, I do get lucky on a timed-release format, but I was wondering if I can get rid of this reliance on luck, as both my years and size of folders go up.
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>Is there an easy way to do this in mutt? I would like to stick to simple tools (and stay in mutt) if possible.
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>My email is pulled in by fetchmail from a POP3 server (gmx) and processed by procmail into folders. I do not use IMAP. I thought I would put this in in case it was relevant.
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>Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes,
>Ranjan
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