Re: Searching across accounts

surgemail-listnetwinsite.com wrote:
> I need to find all email activity between accounts on
my server and "somedomain.com" and have the
results accessible for review and printing by an end user. 
This is in support of a legal proceeding.
>
> I am running 3.7b8-8 on RHEL 4.  I prefer to use server
side tools rather than ask individual users to search their
accounts.  Mailboxes total about 26Gb of storage.
>
> I don't see any tellmail commands that seem to apply. 
I am thinking of using a combination of find | grep and
copying the matching files to a new directory under a
particular email address that could then be accessed for
review.
>
> Any one have any advice?
>
>   
the msg*.rec files in the recYYMM directory will give you a
record of 
all email from/to the domain in question with a single grep
command.

I agree 'find' is probably the way to find the individual
message files. 
Copying them to a folder may not work well as the uid
numbers are part 
of the file names, you'd have to rename each file, to
something like 
nnnnnnn.xxx and put them in a 'new' folder then they should
become 
visible through an email client.

    ChrisP.