searching email with regular expressions

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Apr 12 21:32:26 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 14:23:29 -0700,
  Nataraj <incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com> wrote:
> Do imap servers like dovecot have the capability to search on regular 
> expressions?  What about specific email clients.

The imap protocol is documented at:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html

A quick look suggests that regular expression searches are not supported
on the server side.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients seems to 
> indicate that evolution has some type of support for regular 
> expressions.  If so, I don't see how to use it.  Any ideas?  What about 
> thunderbird or other email clients.

mutt provides this feature. Though it will be slow for remote folders.


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