Searching mail archives

[Dave C]

Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to search a months-worth of mail archives
> (/var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611**) for a specific sender, subject and
> attachment. I have had a play with grep and awk but I am not doing very
> well!!
> 
> Are there any utilities to help or can anyone suggest a sensible command
> line that will do the job?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel Kendrick
> 
This works pretty good for me.. (watch the word wrap and the searchterm 
needs to be in single quotes)

find /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? -type f -name df\* -exec 
grep -il 'searchterm' {} \;

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