Re: Tagging threads containing messages that match a pattern
Hi,
Yesterday, 11 hours, 2 minutes, 6 seconds ago, Daniel Teichert wrote:
> We're thinking of keeping some records in a sort of email database where
> updates to the records would be sent as replies to the emails. One of
> the things we'll want to do sometimes is search for each record (i.e.,
> thread) that matches certain criteria; e.g., each thread corresponds to
> a single hardware item--we want to know which items/threads have emails
> containing 'type: computer', 'os: debian' and 'mail-client-installed:
> mutt'. Note that it is not necessarily the case that all lines are found
> in the same email, just in the same thread.
The undergoing effort for having an extensible Mutt (aka. mutt-guile [0])
aims at making it easy to perform this sort of mail processing, among
other things -- although I'm not 100% sure you'd be able to do what you
want with it in its current status.
Alternatively, Guimb and Sieve [1] are specifically designed for mailbox
processing.
Ludovic.
[0] http://www.nongnu.org/mutt-guile/
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/#guimb