grep folder contents

[cfarinella]

I need to search through all the emails in a certain folder for a text string and print the results to a file. On a standard Postfix setup each user would have a /var/spool/mail/username file which I could grep through to accomplish this. How might I do this with Zimbra?

thanks,

--charlie

[ArcaneMagus]

The mail store folder for Postfix in Zimbra is /opt/zimbra/store

An accounts mailbox ID can be found using the following command:

zmprov gmi user@domain.com

[Rich Graves]

Also try zmmailbox -z -m USER "search -t message 'in:inbox secretword'"

For multiple mailboxes, you can save java startup overhead by piping multiple commands to zmmailbox -z. "sm USER" to set context.

zmmailbox advantages: uses zimbra indices, so may be faster. Aware of folder structure (there is no way to grep just a certain folder, since folder assignment lives in mysql). Less hacking needed. Finds text that might be obscured by html, quoted-printable, or base64 encoding.

grep advantages: It's what you know now, and can be used in more creative pipelines. grep supports regular expressions. Due to a design limitation, zmmailbox can't even handle "multiword phrases".