Abstract:
mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages matching a regular expression. Found messages can be either displayed on standard output, counted, deleted, piped to a shell command or written to another mailbox.
Features:
- support for mbox (either plain or compressed), MH, nnmh, nnml and maildir folders
- ability of reading mbox folders and out from another mboxgrep process from standard input
- support for basic and extended POSIX regular expressions, and optionally, Perl-complatible regular expressions (if linked with the PCRE library)
- ability of limiting the search to message body or headers (although the whole message is scanned by default)
- message counting
- recursive search through directories
- ability to invert the sense of matching
- ability to write found messages to another mailbox
- filtering duplicate messages
News:
- August 30, 2003: Thanks to Vid Strpic, a Slackware package is available.
- August 24, 2003: mboxgrep 0.7.9 released
- March 31, 2003: mboxgrep 0.7.8 released
- March 17, 2003: Domain name MBOXGREP.ORG has been registered, so from now on this site will be accessible via its permanent URL, <http://www.mboxgrep.org/>. Please update your bookmarks.
- June 18, 2002: mboxgrep 0.7.7 released
- February 8, 2002: mboxgrep 0.7.6a released
- February 8, 2002: mboxgrep 0.7.6 released
- January 27, 2002: mboxgrep 0.7.5 released
- January 20, 2002: mboxgrep announcement mailing list created
Versions:
- current unstable version is 0.7.9
- current stable version is not yet available
Mailing list
If you wish to be notified about new versions of mboxgrep and other updates, you can subscribe to its announcement mailing list.
Links and resources:
- mboxgrep project page at Sourceforge
- mboxgrep appindex entry at Freshmeat
- Debian packages should be available at your favorite Debian mirror.
- FreeBSD port is available.
- A Slackware package is avaliable
