Grepmail 5.3 review

Grepmail searches for emails in a normal or compressed mailbox using a regular expression or date constraint. To install this pack

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: David Coppit

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Grepmail searches for emails in a normal or compressed mailbox using a regular expression or date constraint.

To install this package, change to the directory where you unarchived this distribution and do the following steps:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Here are some key features of "Grepmail":
Gzip, bzip2, tzip support
Piped input supported (compressed or not)
Supports complex dates like "between Jan 15, 1999 and 5 weeks ago"
Can ignore non-text MIME attachments
Can search only the header or only the body of an email
Can recurse subdirectories
Automatically optimizes for speed vs. flexibility when searching based on date constraints.

Requirements:
To use this program, you will need to install:

Mail::Mbox::MessageParser: required
Date::Parse: required
Date::Manip: required if you want to search using complex date specifications (-d)
Digest::MD5: not required, but can help grepmail use less memory if you are checking for unique emails (-u) and your emails don't have a Message-Id header
You should be prompted to install modules automatically when you run "perl
Makefile.PL".

What's New in This Release:
Fixed backwards diff in test cases
Updated Mail::Mbox::MessageParser dependency to latest version, and updated test cases as well. (Thanks to Christoph Thiel for the heads up.)