Re: Mail.app problem

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mail.app problem
Date	2016-12-14 06:09 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-12-14, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
>
> Look at one of the old emails.  Copy a phrase that's not likely to be 
> very common.  Then in Terminal
>
> find ~ -type f -exec grep -l "put that phrase here" "{}" \;
>
> This will print the full path of any file containing that phrase.

That will take forever! I'd use Spotlight's mdfind command, which will
find matching items *much* more quickly:

mdfind "phrase here"

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JR

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    Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-12 20:02 +0000
    Re: Mail.app problem paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2016-12-13 09:13 -0600
      Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-13 18:36 -0600
        Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-14 03:33 +0000
        Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 06:09 +0000
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            Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 15:23 +0000
              Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 04:23 +0000
              Re: Mail.app problem Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-12-15 11:44 +0000
            Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:30 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:29 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-14 22:29 -0600

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