Re: Finding a name inside of an email

From: David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com>
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 13:13:30 AKST

* jonr <jonr@destar.net> [2005-02-22 23:00 +0100]:
> I should have clarified this a little better. I have about 1000 emails
> that I need to go through and find that one name. I am using qmail
> with mialdirs so all of the users email is in one directory which then
> splits into three, cur, new and tmp.

Ah! No worries, here's what works for me (FreeBSD 5.3):

find Maildir/ -type f -exec grep -iH ledoux {} \;

The H option shows the file name.

HTH,

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