[lug] grep as imap client?

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:23 -0700, Dean Brissinger wrote:
>     You can use grep actually.  You need access to the mail file up on
> the server through.  I use postfix and put a .mailbox in every user's
> home directory.  UW-IMAP is told where the inbox file is (.mailbox)
> for each user.  Then this file can be 'grep'd.  Cyrus can be built to
> know where your mailboxes are too.
> 

With the set up we'll be using, users won't be able to get at their mail
files except through something that speaks IMAP.