From 46ba5e3a1b0f62196a9e2919f18f16aa17dbef89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:38:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * index.html: update for 0.9 release --- www/index.html | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index ad5aae18..1e920b84 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -47,15 +47,17 @@ a.menu:hover {color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline; }

welcome to mu

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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.

how does it work?

@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ faster. mu indexes your mail with the index command: It tries to pick reasonable defaults, but you can specify your own options as well. You could run mu index periodically to keep your database -up-to-date. Or you could trigger it after new mails has arrived. +up-to-date. Or you could trigger it when new mails have arrived.

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

mug

-Starting with version 0.9, there is now a simple UI called mug. It -started as a little experiment, but it seems to be useful enough to -include. Usage should be straigthforward. +Starting with version 0.9, there is now a +simple UI called mug. It started as a little experiment, but it seems +to be useful enough to include. Usage should be straigthforward. -

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.

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