[jira] Updated: (INFRA-397) Create a simple commandline tool for searching private e-mail archives

["Roy T. Fielding (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-397?page=all ]

Roy T. Fielding updated INFRA-397:
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    Component: InfraTools
                   (was: Mail Archives)

> Create a simple commandline tool for searching private e-mail archives
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>
>          Key: INFRA-397
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-397
>      Project: Infrastructure
>         Type: New Feature
>   Components: InfraTools
>     Reporter: Leo Simons
>     Priority: Minor

>
> Infrastructure does not have any public archives, but does have gzipped mboxes in /home/apmail on minotaur. In general, it would be real nice if it were possible to do something like
>   mail-archive search --list infrastructure@apache.org --from 200302 --to 200507 --subject 'svn commit' --from 'leosimons@apache' --body 'crontabs' > ~/mail/lsd-screwups
>   mutt -f ~/mail/lsd-screwups
> to take a look at all the times I screwed up crontabs over the last few years. Basically this involves:
> -> locating the set of .gz files to search based on the --from and --to
> -> uncompressing those files (preferably on the fly of course)
> -> understanding mbox format (there's probably tools for that)
> -> grepping through those files, allowing to match against headers (eg --subject '^svn commit' matches "Subject: *svn commit") as well as fulltext
> -> generating an mbox file containing the matching emails
> This being just five tasks, I am assuming it can be done in roughly five lines of perl by someone who understands both perl and email.

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