[lug] grep as imap client?

[Hugh Brown]

I'm looking at moving to Cyrus Imap for a mail server.  There are lots of
reasons to do it (quota, no more big mail spools, performance, etc.), but
one of the drawbacks is that you can't use programs like grep to search
through your various mail folders.

What sorts of command line tools are there for grep'ping through email
that is only available through an IMAP interface?

Hugh