Re: [bug-mailutils] How to find last message?

[Jean Louis]

On top of this, I see there is readmsg, that can
access message by number.

Maybe I could make a program to go over mailboxes,
and do something like readmsg on the last number
given by messages, and then grep or search the
first line From:

If you have better idea let me know.

Is From: always the first line given from readmsg?

Jean

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:31:27PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> Dear Sergey,
> 
> I have a system of Maildirs in the scheme such as
> ~/Maildir/address@hidden/
> 
> That is helping me quickly locate the conversation
> belonging to certain email address.
> 
> There are 33281 such folders on my side.
> 
> I can easily count interactions with people by
> using messages program, that helps me to sort out
> who are those people who are better or well
> connected with me.
> 
> However, I would like to find a an automatic way
> to find out either folders or/and messages where
> the last email has been sent by myself, by one of
> my email addresses, or by using other type of
> query.
> 
> What idea comes up in your mind if you wish to
> find out if the last message within a folder have
> been sent by certain email address?
> 
> I have reviewed sieve, and few programs, I do not
> find it.
> 
> I am thinking in this direction: if `messages' can
> find the number of messages in the inbox, I
> already go that number of the last message.
> 
> And how do I access programmatically only the last
> message to search for email address?
> 
> Jean