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Re: Slightly OT. Good IMAP search tool?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Sat Feb 20 16:52:04 2010

Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:51:36 -0500
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 04:45:03PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> I use fetchmail and grepmail.  Grepmail emits as its output a Unix mbox
> file, so it lends itself quite nicely to going through chunks of saved mail,
> matching grep-ish criteria (including headers) and producing a file full
> of the messages that match.

Have you figured out how to get grepmail to decode MIME?  A mailing 
list I'm on recently started emitting MIME/base64 encoded inline text.


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