Robert Bernier at ONLamp.com - Creating Custom Email Queries:

"In my last article on data mining email, I described how you could upload a Mozilla mailbox into a PostgreSQL database. With the email uploaded, I showed how to search through the email looking for text strings using both the standard SQL and PostgreSQL's POSIX regular expressions. As a grand finale, you then saw how you could extract Microsoft Word document attachments and perform text searches on those too.

In the true spirit of hacking, this article will consider the next step of data mining: performing in-depth searches on email by tweaking an existing mail system."