use Perl

• Dude... (Score:1)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  Other than the sorting, wouldn't this be pretty much trivial with a bit of grep? Something like:
  
          grep '^Subject: ' $(find Maildir -type f) | grep -v '^Subject: re:'
  
  Yeah, continuation lines would take a bit more, but mail's easy as long as you don't touch MIME.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671)

    My example was *radically* simplified for the point of demonstrating the headache, it was not the entire program I wanted to produce.

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    rjbs
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by educated_foo (3106)

      Sorry, I was just guessing from what you posted and your description of a "better 'frm'." But still, so long as you only care about headers, it seems like Email::Foo would be more trouble than it's worth.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by rjbs (4671)

        You are wrong.
        
        I don't want to match header-like content in bodies, or in the headers of subparts. I need to match wrapped headers. I will need to decode MIME-encoded headers. I will need to parse RFC822 date fields.
        
        Email isn't simple.

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        rjbs
        • Re:Dude... (Score:1)

          by dug (2501) on 2007.11.27 23:29 (#59207) Journal

          Email isn't simple.

          That said, I just today had to install some code that used your helpful modules in order to make it more simple. Thanks a whole bunch. You make email easier.

          -- Douglas

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          • Re: (Score:1)

            by rjbs (4671)

            Thanks! While I am more a maintainer than an author on many or most of the email modules under my name on the CPAN, knowing that they save people work is a nice motivator to keep doing my own work on them.

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            rjbs