mirror of https://github.com/djcb/mu.git
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1.8 KiB
Org Mode
33 lines
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Welcome to ~mu~!
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*Note*: you are looking at the *development* branch, which is where new code is being developed and
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tested, and which may occasionally break.
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Distribution and non-adventurous users are instead recommended to use the 1.4.x Release Branch [[https://github.com/djcb/mu/tree/release/1.4.x][1.4.x
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Release Branch]] or to pick up one of the [[https://github.com/djcb/mu/releases][1.4.x Releases]].
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Given the enormous amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance of e-mail message in our
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work-flows, it's essential to quickly deal with all that mail - in particular, to instantly find
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that one important e-mail you need right now, and quickly file away message for later use.
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~mu~ is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format. ~mu~'s purpose in life is
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to help you to quickly find the messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages,
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extract attachments, create new maildirs, and so on. See the [mu cheatsheet] for some examples. =mu=
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is fully documented.
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After indexing your messages into a [[http://www.xapian.org][Xapian]]-database, you can search them
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using a custom query language. You can use various message fields or words in the body text to find
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the right messages.
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Built on top of ~mu~ are some extensions (included in this package):
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- mu4e: a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside emacs
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- mu-guile: bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language (version 2.2 and later)
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~mu~ is written in C and C++; ~mu4e~ is written in elisp, and ~mu-guile~ in a mix of C and Scheme.
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Note, ~mu~ is available in Linux distributions (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora) under the name
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~maildir-utils~; apparently because they don't like short names. The all of the code is distributed
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under the terms of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html][GNU General Public License version 3]] (or higher).
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