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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