From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 00:02:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9216016A418 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F6313C457 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1F02hKi044552 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:02:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802141602.43610.kline@thought.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: how can i save IMAP indexed mail via username? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:48 -0000 About two months ago my mail system fell apart and a thoughtful network fellow helped me re-organize things. Everything, including using a small server as a firewall. We set up three services on another box, that included using IMAP (with sendmail). IMAP indexes things on my mailserver logically, by an integer scheme. When I look for an old file I have to scp to the server and grep through the entire list before I find what I'm looking for. Previously, I [[ usually ]] remembered the sender's name so that here, in ~/Mail, I could easily view the file with vi + a few keystrokes. Soooo, is there a way to make symlinks or copies of all of my *saved* mail-- wherever? In other words, if the message is in a file called 144567912456777878.556778990-67812989900 sent by user jqs, I would be able to view that message by just typing % vi jqs. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org