Re: Finding messages from one person replied to by another?
* Michael Kjorling <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-18-09 10:36]:
> On 18 Jan 2009 09:14 -0500, by ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Shanahan):
> > get a package called mairix. It maintains a database of various
> > fields and the body of your mail and provides multi-field search
> > capability.
>
> I have mairix installed, and use it - specifically, I have 0.20-1
> installed. But even looking over the documentation, I don't see how
> that will help me get a list of messages like the one I want. Would
> you be so kind as to provide an example that (alone or together with
> mutt's filtering) will find messages according to criteria like the
> ones laid out in my original post?
>
> The differences between 0.20 and 0.21 appear to be largely minor
> enhancements, and I certainly don't see anything that would enable the
> kind of searches I want to do.
your request:
I often find myself in the situation of wanting to find messages
"from" a given person, that have been replied to (immediate child node
in the thread tree) by another given person, and preferably see the
two messages together in the index while hiding others. Sometimes I
don't remember specific enough key words to be able to filter on
message body content, and often, both individuals are regular
contributors so simply filtering on either sender, or threads
containing messages from both (something like "~(~f A) ~(~f B)"),
yields a large number of false positives.
with mairix you may define a date range, from, subject, disk location,
message to and words appearing in the body. You may even define
negatives and fuzzy searchs, or's and and's.
mairix d:3d- f:someone@xxxxxxx t:somebody@xxxxxxx/metoo@xxxxxxx \
s:finding,messages,from,one,person b:mutt
d:3d- date range, last three days
f:som... person from
t:som/me to somebody@xxxxxxx OR metoo@xxxxxxx
s:fn.. words in subject
b:mu.. words in the message body
and the man file is very good. The results are presented in a
mail folder designated in your mairix config file.
May not solve everyone's problems but narrows the field enough to be a
*great* help, imnsho.
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