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From: brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: searching message bodies
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Date: 23 May 91 16:09:29 GMT
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I would like to emulate the "search" functionality provided by the VMS MAIL
utility (please, no religious comments :^). In VMS MAIL, a string search
returns a list of "From" message headers (the bodies of which contain the
string searched for), formatted much like a freshly-opened folder. The user
can then pick messages to read as he normally would.

Currently, I do the following: "set unix", "pick string_I_want | more". This
allows me to read all the messages containing the search string using more. 
I'd like to just look at the headers as if they were a new folder, accessing 
message bodies by my choice. I get the impression that I want a "temporary" 
folder; is this correct? How would I achieve this behavior?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian White, System Manager
New Jersey Institute of Technology
brw@hertz.njit.edu brw@njit.edu