On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:46:56AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:

- easiest way to search is to either download some of the mbox files and load them in your MUA (this is what i usually do for mailing list archives),

btw, mailman pipermail archives aren't quite correct mbox format. pipermail mangles both the date and sender address in the From_ line (envelope sender) and the address in the From: header (changing "@" to "at"). i usually run pipermail archives through the following perl script (fix-pipermail.pl) before loading them into mutt: #! /usr/bin/perl -ni.bak use Date::Parse ; use Date::Format ; $template = "%a %b %d %R:%S %Y" ; if (/(^From )(\S*) (.*)/) { chomp; s/ at /\@/; s/ +/ /g; ($from,$address,$time) = split / /,$_,3; $date = time2str($template, $time) ; print "$from $address $time\n" ; } elsif (/^From: /) { # transform <foo at bar.com> to <foo@bar.com> s/ at /\@/; print ; } else { print ; } ; BTW, i wrote this script and it is hereby released to the public domain - it's trivially obvious anyway and should not be subject to copyright. craig