Re: [Evolution] Script to search mails

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Samstag, den 14.08.2010, 16:32 +0200 schrieb Chris Blake:
> Greetings community,
>
> I have a specific folder in my Inbox which I need to search for emails
> and manipulate the results.
>
> I need to do this on the command line, something like :
>
> SELEECT * from the Inbox/Folder_To_Search
> WHERE Subject CONTAINS 'keyphrase'
> AND date received is less than 01 August 2010
>
> I want to have the full subject line of that email piped into a text
> file so I can manipulate it with other bash commands.
>
> Can someone help me, or point me to a tutorial on how I can script with
> the Evolution folders, if possible.
>
> So far Google search has given me no results I can work with, still
> searching...
>
> Thanks for your replies...

Take a look at procmail, http://www.procmail.org/. It contains a program
called formail to manipulate emails in mbox format. That's how evolution
stores local mail.
Also, you could define a filter. As action you could choose to call a
program or pipe the mail through a program.


-- 
thomas