[grepmail-announce] grepmail 4.72 released

[David C. <da...@co...>]

Description:
- grepmail is a Perl program that searches a normal or compressed mailbox
  (gzip, bzip2, or tzip) for a given regular expression and returns those
  emails that match the query. It also supports searches constrained by date
  and size.

Download:
- You can download grepmail 4.72 from CPAN:
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DC/DCOPPIT/grepmail-4.72.tar.gz
- Until the file propagates to the mirrors, you can use the following URL:
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/grepmail/grepmail-4.72.tar.gz

*** This release should really by called the "Terry Jones Release". Not only
*** did he fix a number of bugs, I was surprised that he made a 1 line change
*** which resulted in a 20% speed improvement. As a result, the Perl mailbox
*** parser is now only about 5% slower than the C parser. (Who said interpreted
*** Perl can't be fast?)

Changes:
- 20% speed improvement in the Perl mailbox parser (By terry jones)
- Fixed a number of potential bugs in command line processing and date
  processing. (By terry jones)
- Cleaned up return values and use of quotes in the code. (By terry jones)
- Fixed a bug in -X signature processing (By terry jones)
- Modified anonymize_mailbox to anonymize To: and Subject: in the header.
  (Thanks to terry jones for the idea.)
- Fixed a bug in FastReader where emails less than 255 characters in size
  would occasionally cause a core dump. (Thanks to terry jones
  for submitting a bug report and sample mailbox.)

A complete change log is at:
- http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/CHANGES

Other notes:
- Users wishing to install Mail::Folder::FastReader will need to
  install Inline 0.41, available at
  http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Inline

Thanks,
David

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David Coppit                           da...@co...
The College of William and Mary        http://coppit.org/

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