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<h2><a name="welcome">welcome to mu</a></h2> <h2><a name="welcome">welcome to mu</a></h2>
<p>E-mail is the 'flow' in the work flow of many people. Consequently, <p>For many people, e-mail is the 'flow' in their work-flow. One one spends
one spends a <em>lot</em> of time searching for old e-mails, to dig up a <em>lot</em> of time searching for old e-mails, to dig up some important
some important piece of information. With people having tens of piece of information. With people having tens of thousands of e-mails (or
thousands of e-mails (or more), this is becoming harder and more), this is becoming harder and harder. How to find that one message in the
harder. How to find that one e-mail in an evergrowing haystack? evergrowing information haystack?
<p>Enter <strong>mu</strong>. 'mu' is a set of command-line tools for <p>Enter <strong>mu</strong>. 'mu' is a set of command-line tools for
Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking Linux/Unix that enable you to quickly find the e-mails you are looking for,
for, assuming that you store your e-mails in Maildirs (e-mail assuming that you store your e-mails in Maildirs (e-mail directories).
directories).
<h3>how does it work?</h3> <h3>how does it work?</h3>
<p>First there is <tt>mu index</tt> which fills a database with <p>First, you need to <i>index</i> your messages. Indexing means filling a
information about all your e-mails; this may take a couple of minutes database with information about your e-mails; this may take a couple of
the first time you do it, but after that it's a lot faster. minutes the first time you do it, but after that it's a lot
faster. <tt>mu</tt> indexes your mail with the <tt>index</tt> command:
<pre> <pre>
$ mu index $ mu index
</pre> </pre>
It tries to pick reasonable defaults, but you can of course specify It tries to pick reasonable defaults, but you can specify your own options as
your own options. You can run <tt>mu index</tt> periodically to keep well. You could run <tt>mu index</tt> periodically to keep your database
your database up-to-date. up-to-date. Or you could trigger it after new mails has arrived.
<p>After building the database, it's easy to search for messages. For example: <p>After building the database, it's easy to search for messages. For example:
<ul> <ul>