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For many people, e-mail is the 'flow' in their work-flow. One one spends -a lot of time searching for old e-mails, to dig up some important +
For many people, e-mail is the 'flow' in their work-flow. One spends +a lot of time searching for old e-mails, digging up some important piece of information. With people having tens of thousands of e-mails (or more), this is becoming harder and harder. How to find that one message in the evergrowing information haystack?
Enter mu. 'mu' is a set of command-line tools for -Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking for, -assuming that you store your e-mails in Maildirs (e-mail directories). +Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking for. +The main requirement is that you store your e-mails in +Maildirs. If you have no idea what 'Maildirs' are, you are probably +not using them.
After building the database, it's easy to search for messages. For example:
Searches are case-insensitive as well as 'accent insensitive' (version 0.9 - and up); so angStroM will match Ångström. + and up); so angStroM will match Ångström. Often-used queries + can be stored in bookmarks file.
The way to express the searches may be a bit cryptic at first, but easy to learn (in the author's biased opinion); the mu manpages discuss syntax and usage. There is also the mu-easy man-page which contains a lot of simple examples to get you going. -
NOTE: while searching from the command-line is sometimes useful, mu is most -easily used when integrated with an e-mail program. The documentation includes -examples for integration with mutt and Wanderlust. +
NOTE: while searching from the command-line is useful, mu can also easily +be integrated with some e-mail clients. The documentation includes examples +for integration with mutt and Wanderlust.
mu is Free Software (GPLv3), runs on Unix/Linux-based systems, and uses the maildirs
The longer-term goal is to have a bit more complete graphical user-interface; -for the time being, mug seems to work fine. +
The longer-term goal is to have a bit more complete graphical +user-interface; for the time being, mug seems to work fine.
If you have defined bookmarks, mug will show them in the toolbar on the left side of the mug-window, as can be seen in the screenshot.
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/mu/mu-ng.git- -This is the source code for future versions of mu; there are branches and tags +This is the source code for future versions of mu; there are tags for released versions. If you're not planning on getting involved in the development of mu, it is recommended you use the actual releases. The git version, in particular the 'master' branch, may break at times.