mboxgrep mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages matching a regular expression.
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mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages matching a regular expression. mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages matching a regular expression. Found messages can be either displayed on standard output, counted, deleted, piped to a shell command or written to another mailbox.Here are some key features of "mboxgrep":· support for mbox (either plain or compressed), MH, nnmh, nnml and maildir folders · ability of reading mbox folders and out from another mboxgrep process from standard input · support for basic and extended POSIX regular expressions, and optionally, Perl-complatible regular expressions (if linked with the PCRE library) · ability of limiting the search to message body or headers (although the whole message is scanned by default) · message counting · recursive search through directories · ability to invert the sense of matching · ability to write found messages to another mailbox · filtering duplicate messagesWhat's New in This Release:· implemented support for mbox folders compressed with bzip2 algorithm· improved detection of PCRE library; this also fixes a compilation bug on recent RedHat Linux systems· fixed a problem with message deletion, which used to occur if an mbox folder and temporary directory were on different filesystems

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