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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Suggestion
From:       Ed Arnold <era () ucar ! edu>
Date:       1999-12-02 19:51:47
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A minor clarification: use of the ";" command requires that
enable-aggregate-command-set be in .pinerc's feature-list.
Also, it isn't clear to me that "text" can be a regular expression
(as in grepmail), do you know?


> On 99-12-02 David Collantes <david@bus.ucf.edu> wrote:
> > This is a suggestion for the Pine Development group. I know I can search
> > the subject of messages while in a Pine "folder" but it will be great to
> > have a global search that will search subject and body of messages in all
> > your mailboxes and on an specific mailbox. Would that be a planned
> > feature?
> 
> Pine can already do this. 
> 
> [1] To search the current mailbox type:
> 
>  ; T A text CR
> 
> You'll be presented with a list of *messages* that contain the
> search text anywhere in the header or body.
> 
> 
> [2] To search a group of mailboxes, first go to the Folder List
> that has the group of mailboxes you want to search, then type:
> 
>  ; T C text CR
> 
> You'll be presented with a list of *mailbox* that contain
> messages that contain the search text. You then need to go to
> each individual mailbox and do step [1] there. As someone
> else said, it would be great if method [2] presented you with a
> virtual mailbox with all the messages from all the mailboxes that
> matched your search.
> 
> HTH,
> Nancy 

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