Subject: searching (with Select ';') across multiple folders

From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:28:31 -0500 (CDT)

Hello to all readers!

I am not subscribed to this list, so if you have a suggestion, please send
it to me directly (in addition to the list, if you like).

I love PINE (v. 3.96 on Sun Solaris 2.6) and the Select feature (using the
semi-colon) is really superb.  My problem is that I often have to find a
collection of messages that are in different folders.  I end up having to
reapply the same command in one folder after another.  If only PINE could
search across multiple folders simultaneously! 

Will future versions of PINE have this feature?  If not, is there any
software out there that can search a collection of mbox files and output
another mbox containing all the messages that meet certain criteria? 

Thanks much!

Mike

Michael B. Miller, M.S., Ph.D., M.P.E.
Department of Psychology
210 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri--Columbia
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From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:28:09 -0500 (CDT)

I decided that I would take PINE-INFO as daily digests, so I'll post a
response to my query on searching across multiple folders using the select
command.  Great news--Pine 4.00 will include this facility.  In the
meantime, I did discover a way to get what I wanted using the Unix 'cat'
command.  I leave Pine, cd to my mail directory, then

cat foldernames > newfolder

This command will take a collection of folders and it will append them all
together into one big folder called "newfolder".  "foldernames" could be
wildcard name like "sent*" or a series of filenames.  The 'newfolder'
might be huge, and that is one of the main drawbacks of this method.  Then
go back into pine, enter the "newfolder" folder, and do the select.  It
could be slow, but it works. 

Regards to all,

Mike

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Edan Idzerda wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> Check out the Pine 4.00 preview, at 
> 
>     http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.00-preview/
> 
> It allegedly will this feature.
> 
>  
> That sounds like an interesting program.  I often just use 'grep' 
> and look for something unique.  You could use glimpseindex on a 
> regular basis... 
> 
> But I guess Pine 4 will take care of it for you :)
> 
> - edan
> 
> 
>