[plug] client-server e-mail query system?

[Andrew Furey]

> I'd like to search for, retrieve and display only
> selected e-mails from a large mail spool rather than
> use a more conventional IMAP+browser or MTA+text
> client like pine, elm, ...   I'd like to do this
> over a low bandwidth link.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned grepmail
(http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/), with the
gtkgrepmail frontend (both in Debian) written by our
very own JMalcolm, who must not be reading this thread
;)

Only thing is, I don't know if it satisfies the "low
bandwidth" requirement (I don't use it). Certainly
whenever said list member uses it, the loadavg on the
mail server goes up significantly, so I should think
it's searching locally.

HTH
Andrew

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