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grepmail
Developer(s)David Coppit[1]
Initial releaseBefore 15 April 1999[2]
Written inPerl[3]
Operating systemFreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, OS X
Available inEnglish
TypeEmail searching
LicenseGPLv2
Websitesourceforge.net/projects/grepmail/

grepmail is a tool for searching emails within mbox mailboxes.[4][5] It is capable of searching the emails' headers, in addition to the full text of the emails.[6] It is suitable for use in digital forensics investigations involving email, as long as the size of the mbox files involved is not excessive.[4][5]

Features

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Grepmail has powerful temporal searching capabilities. For example, it can retrieve messages sent in a given window of time, regardless of day, for some given mbox.[4][5]

Grepmail can create a new mbox containing all the emails matching a query, so that these can be viewed in a Mail User Agent.[7]

Grepmail can search inside compressed mboxes.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Frisch, Æleen (2002). Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 615–616. ISBN 9780596550493.
  2. ^ "Announcements". LWN. 15 April 1999. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  3. ^ a b Zawodny, Jeremy (15 May 2003). "grepmail". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
  4. ^ a b c Casey, Eoghan (2009). Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation. Academic Press. p. 347. ISBN 9780080921471.
  5. ^ a b c Altheide, Cory; Carvey, Harlan (2011). Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools. Elsevier. pp. 165–166. ISBN 9781597495875.
  6. ^ Whittaker, Roger; Davies, Justin (2011). OpenSUSE 11.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118079980.
  7. ^ Davies, Justin; Whittaker, Roger; von Hagen, William (2006). SUSE Linux 10 Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471791096.