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* Welcome to mu!
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2012-01-15 13:32:04 +01:00
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With the /enormous/ amounts of e-mail many people gather and the importance of
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e-mail messages in our daily work-flow, it is very important to be able to
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quickly deal with all that - in particular, to instantly find that one
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important e-mail you need right now.
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2011-12-31 15:06:33 +01:00
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2012-01-15 13:32:04 +01:00
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For that, *mu* was created. *mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages
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stored in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format, on Unix-like systems. *mu*'s main purpose is to
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help you to find the messages you need, quickly; in addition, it allows you to
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view messages, extract attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
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cheatsheet]] for some examples.
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2012-01-15 13:32:04 +01:00
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*mu* now comes with an emacs-based e-mail client (=mu4e=), a simple GUI
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(=mug=) and bindings for the Guile/Scheme programming language.
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2012-01-14 10:03:05 +01:00
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** Features
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- fast indexing for Maildir, Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
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- search for messages based on the sender, receiver, subject, date range,
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size, priority, words in message, flags (signed, encrypted, new, replied,
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has-attachment,...), message-id, maildir, tags, attachment (name,
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mime-type, text) and more
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- command-line tools for indexing, searching, viewing, extracting
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attachments, exporting address lists, creating maildirs, ...
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- accent/case normalization - so /angstrom/ will match /Ångström/.
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- can be integrated with other e-mail clients such as [[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]] and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust][Wanderlust]].
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- [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], an emacs-based e-mail client based on =mu=
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2012-01-31 19:56:23 +01:00
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- [[file:mu-guile.html][mu-guile]]: guile 2.0 bindings that allow for scripting, advanced processing
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of your data, and doing all kinds of statistics
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- fully documented (man pages, info pages)
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2011-02-13 09:46:50 +01:00
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** News
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2012-02-04 09:15:07 +01:00
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- 2012-01-31: finally, [[http://mu0.googlecode.com/files/mu-0.9.8.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8]] is available. It comes with an emacs-based
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e-mail client, [[file:mu4e.html][mu4e]], and much improved [[file:mu-guile.html][guile bindings]]. Furthermore, It adds
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search for attachment mime type and search inside any text part of a
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message, more tests, improvements in many parts of the code.
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2011-12-31 15:06:33 +01:00
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- 2011-09-03: mu 0.9.7 is now available; compared to the -pre version there
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are a few small changes; the most important one is a fix specifically for
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running mu on MacOS.
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2011-07-31 11:59:16 +02:00
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- 2011-07-31: mu *0.9.7-pre* is now available with a number of interesting
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new features and fixes, many based on user suggestions. =mu= now supports
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/mail threading/ based on the [[http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html][JWZ-algorithm]]; output is now automatically
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converted to the user-locale; =mu view= can output separators between
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messages for easier processing, support for X-Label-tags, and last but not
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least, =mu= now has bindings for the [[http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/][Guile]] (Scheme) programming language -
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there is a new toy (=toys/muile=) that allows you to inspect messages and
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do all kinds of statistics - see the [[https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README][README]] for more information.
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Note, the repository name has changed, it's now at: https://gitorious.org/mu/mu.
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2011-06-02 11:14:36 +02:00
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- 2011-06-02: after quite a bit of testing, *0.9.6* has been promoted to be
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the next release -- forget about the 'bèta'. Development continues for
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the next release.
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2011-05-28 11:29:53 +02:00
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- 2011-05-28: *mu-0.9.6* (bèta). A lot of internal changes, but also quite
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some new features, for example:
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2011-05-29 12:58:42 +02:00
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- wild-card searching for most fields: mu find 'car*'
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- search for message with certain attachments with 'attach:/a:': mu find
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'attach:resume*'
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- color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view=
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Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
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cheatsheet]].
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- 2011-04-25: *mu-0.9.5* a small, but important, bugfix in maildir-detection,
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2011-04-25 17:58:04 +02:00
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some small optimizations.
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2011-04-12 21:52:38 +02:00
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- 2011-04-12: *mu 0.9.4* released - adds the =cfind= command, to find
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contacts (name + e-mail); add =flag:unread= which is a synonym for
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=flag:new OR NOT flag:seen=. Updates to the documentation and some internal
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updates. This is a *bèta-version*.
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2011-02-13 14:44:36 +01:00
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- 2011-02-13: *mu 0.9.3*; fixes a bunch of minor issues in 0.9.2; updated the
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web page with pages for [[file:mug.org][mug]] (the experimental UI) and the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]].
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2011-02-13 09:46:50 +01:00
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- 2011-02-02: *mu 0.9.2* released, which adds support for matching on message
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2011-07-31 11:59:16 +02:00
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size, and various new output format. See [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/NEWS][NEWS]] for all the user-visible
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changes, also from older releases.
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- [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
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2011-07-31 11:59:16 +02:00
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** Development & download
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2011-02-28 07:20:58 +01:00
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Some Linux-distributions already provide pre-built mu packages; if there's no
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packagage for your distribution, or if you want the latest release, you can
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[[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/list][download mu source packages]] from Google Code. In case you find a bug, or have
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a feature requests, please use the [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list][issue tracker]].
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2011-07-31 11:59:16 +02:00
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If you'd like to work with the mu source code, you can find it [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu][in Gitorious]];
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also, see the notes on [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/HACKING][HACKING]] the mu source code.
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2011-02-13 09:46:50 +01:00
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There's also a [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mailing list]].
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** License & Copyright
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*mu* was designed and implemented by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema, and is Free
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Software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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