Re: [Evolution] Script to search mails

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On 8/14/2010 10:42 AM, Chris Blake wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Reid Thompson<reid thompson ateb com>
> > Reply-to: reid thompson ateb com
> > To: chris igroup co za
> > Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Script to search mails
> > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:38:09 -0400
> > perhaps
> > http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > or gnu mailutils

you might also try
http://do.homeunix.org/MailboxParsingWithAwk.html?DevelopmentResources

or ruby or other scripting languages
what format is your evolution mail in mbox, maildir, ????

see the ruby script on this page -- mod it to output what you want, rather than splitting the file
http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/05/01/splitting-huge-mbox-files.html