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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Suggestion
From:       Mike Miller <mbmiller () taxa ! psyc ! missouri ! edu>
Date:       1999-12-02 22:04:03
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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Eduardo Chappa L. wrote:

> *** Mike Miller (mbmiller@taxa.psyc.missouri.edu) wrote today:
> 
> :) I started asking for that a couple of years ago.  I was told that Pine
> :) 4.00 would have that feature, but it actually doesn't have it (as far as I
> :) can tell).  It looks like it lets you find folders that contain certain
> :) strings, but it doesn't pull the messages out of the folders for you.
> :) 
> :) I've basically given up on having Pine do what I need in this regard and
> :) I've started using a perl script called grepmail.  It's working very well
> :) for me.  You can look for my earlier postings on grepmail in the archive.
> :) Just search for "grepmail".
> 
> I am not sure if Pine will ever be able to do something like this,
[snip]
>   Now let us say you did the select that Nancy described before. Because
> of the way Pine works today, the only possible output would be to show you
> an index in a "folder index", so you would have to create a "fake" folder
> with "fake" messages and open them from there (aargh, this sounds awful to
> display on screen and program)


My thinking was that Pine should make a fake folder.  With the way things
work now, we can select within folders and 'Apply' various manipulations
(Save, Extract, Delete, etc.).  I recommend that we give up on the Apply
feature for multi-folder searches (because it's probably too hard to work
it out).  Let's just do a mailgrep kind of thing where we search for
messages in multiple folders, then pipe the output to a file (folder),
then go to the index of that folder.  From there we can do further
Selection and Apply commands, but we are not operating on the original
messages, just on copies of those messages.  The new folder could have a
name like TEMPFOLDER or maybe the user should be prompted for a name.

I recommended once before that it would be nice if Pine could run perl
scripts to do this sort of thing.  It seems like it would be easy to add a
feature such as "Enable perl grepmail" and allow users to run grepmail
from within Pine.  You might even add "path to perl" and "path to
grepmail" items to the pinerc.

Regards,

Mike

-- 
Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/

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